| French marigold | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Tagetes |
| Species: | T. patula
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| Binomial name | |
| Tagetes patula | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
Tagetes patula, the French marigold,[3][4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Mexico and Guatemala with several naturalised populations in many other countries. It is widely cultivated as an easily grown bedding plant with hundreds of cultivars, which often have bright yellow to orange flowers.
Some authorities regard Tagetes patula as a synonym of Tagetes erecta, the Mexican marigold.[5]
- ^ "Tagetes patula". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
- ^ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. "PLANTS Database". Retrieved 2007-09-04.
- ^ NRCS. "Tagetes patula". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ "Tagetes patula". The Plant List. Retrieved 1 December 2018.