Tagetes elongata

Tagetes elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Tagetes
Species: T. elongata
Binomial name
Tagetes elongata
Willd. 1803

Tagetes elongata is a Latin American species of marigolds in the sunflower family. It has been found in central and southern Mexico from San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas south to Chiapas.[1][2]

Tagetes elongata is an annual herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 9-17 toothed leaflets. The plant produces numerous flower heads in flat-topped arrays, yellow, each head containing ray florets surrounding disc florets.[1]


References

  1. 1 2 Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 153-154
  2. Strother, J. L. 1999. Compositae–Heliantheae s. l. 5: 1–232. In D.E. Breedlove (ed.) Flora of Chiapas. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
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