Common names:

• African marigold  (Source: Dye Pl) - English
• American marigold  (Source: Culinary Herbs) - English
• Aztec marigold  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• big marigold  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• marigold  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• saffron marigold  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• tagète rose d'Inde  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• hohe Studentenblume  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• Studentenblume  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• senju-giku  (Source: F Korea) - Japanese Rōmaji
• maravilha  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• flor de muerto  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• stor tagetes  (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn) - Swedish
• wan shou ju  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
• cheonsugug  (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean
• barchatcy prjamostojaščie  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder (dried flower meal & extract used as supplement for poultry feed fide Ency CNatIn; Food Feed Crops US)
• Environmental:
• Food additives:
• Harmful organism host:
• Materials:
• Medicines:
• Non-vertebrate poisons:
• Social: religious/secular (fide F Guat)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Veracruz, Yucatan]

Southern America

• MESOAMERICA: Guatemala
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Peru [Ucayali]


Cultivated (widely cult.)

Adventive

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Madeira Islands]

Europe

• MIDDLE EUROPE: Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy


Naturalized

Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Tanzania
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Gauteng, Mpumalanga]
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Zaire
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka

Australasia

• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom [England]
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Romania, Slovenia

Northern America

• United States

Pacific

• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Niue

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Puerto Rico
• MESOAMERICA: Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Ecuador


Other (probably also natzd. elsewhere)

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