Henk Egbertzen
Netherlands
Tagetes
Tagetes is a genus of 52 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family Asteraceae or Compositae.
They are known almost universally in North America as Marigold not to be confused with the genus Calendula, which goes by the same name in some areas, or variously as Mexican marigolds or cempasúchil, African marigolds usually referring to cultivars and hybrids of T. erecta, although this species is not native to Africa, or French marigolds (usually referring to hybrids and cultivars of T. patula, many of which were developed in France although the species is not native to that country. At least one species is a naturalized weed in Africa, Hawaii, and Australia.
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