Tagetes

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tagetes

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Strongly scented annual or perennial herbs or shrubs; stems often much branched, often straw-colored, usually glabrous. Leaves simple to pinnately compound (in ours), opposite or alternate above, sessile or petiolate; blades with scattered elongate or round oil glands, the margins entire to serrate. Inflorescence with heads solitary or in leafy cymes; peduncles short to elongate and often inflated above. Heads varying in size, radiate (in ours) or discoid; involucre uniseriate; involucral bracts 3-10, equal in length, fused, oil glands usually in 1-3 rows; receptacle flat or convex, naked. Ray flowers in 1 to several series, often showy; corollas white, yellow, orange, or red. Disk flowers few to many, bisexual; corollas yellow to orange. Achenes elongate, cylindrical, the surface roughened with many inconspicuous ribs, glabrous to variously pubescent, those of rays often smaller than those of the disks; pappus of awns or scales.

    Distribution and Ecology - A genus of about 40 species with a natural range from the southwestern United States to northern Argentina. Several species are cultivated throughout the world.