French marigold
ഫ്രഞ്ച് മാരിഗോൾഡ്
Tagetes patula
Kew's current name: Tagetes erecta Patula Group, a kind of Tagetes erecta
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 37 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Asteraceae
Formerly Tagetes corymbosa, Tagetes elongata, Tagetes heterocarpha, Tagetes remotiflora
When it flowers
Flowers August to December in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to GuatemalaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 33 cm to 41 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–12 in; Wikipedia 0.5–0.5 m
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–18 in; Wikipedia 0.3–0.3 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, brownRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension brown, orange, red, yellow; Wikipedia brown, orange, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African lilyFlowers January to July, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers January to July, when this does not
Cotton RosemallowFlowers January to July, when this does not
Crimson bottlebrushFlowers January to July, when this does not
LantanaFlowers January to July, when this does not
LemonFlowers January to July, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- root
- tecacayactli
- Spanish
- clavel de moro, Tagete, clemolito
- Japanese
- フレンチ・マリーゴールド, コウオウソウ, クジャクソウ
- Czech
- aksamitník rozkladitý
- Finnish
- ryhmäsamettikukka
- Russian
- Бархатцы мелкоцветные
- German
- Gewöhnliche Samtblume
- Lithuanian
- Gvazdikinis serentis
- Chinese (China)
- 孔雀草
- Korean
- 만수국
- Swedish
- sammetsblomster
- Chinese
- 孔雀草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Tagetes patula (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.