Red-crescent marigold
Tagetes lunulata Ortega
- light
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- water
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- tall
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- wide
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Asteraceae
When it flowers
Flowers September to January 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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Wild in
- MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: grows as, climate, light, height, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (4)
- Spanish
- Cinco llagas, Cempasúchil silvestre, Flor de muerto
- root
- Acocotzatl, Acocozatl, Tepetonalxochitl
- Chinese (China)
- 矮万寿菊
- Chinese
- 矮万寿菊
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
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.