Common names:

• Aztec marigold  (Source: Ency CNatIn) - English
• dwarf marigold  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• khakibush  (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2) - English
• Mexican marigold  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• Muster John Henry  (Source: F Afr Centr) - English
• southern marigold  (Source: BSBI) - English
• stinking-Roger  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• wild marigold  (Source: State Noxweed Seed) - English
• mexikanische Studentenblume  (Source: Zander Ency) - German
• shiozakisō  (Source: F Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• coari-bravo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cravo-bravo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cravo-de-defunto  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cravo-de-urubú  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• cravo-do-mato  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• erva-fedorenta  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• rabo-de-foguete  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• vara-de-rojão  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• huacatay  (Source: pers. comm.) - Quichua (Peru)
• chinchilla enana  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• stinktagetes  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
• Food additives:
• Harmful organism host:
• Materials: essential oils (in perfumery)
• Medicines:
• Non-vertebrate poisons: weed control (when intercropped with other crops)
• Vertebrate poisons:
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador [Loja]
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán] Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay


Cultivated (widely cult.)

Adventive

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Morocco

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Israel

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Norway, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Hungary
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Croatia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica)


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Azores, Madeira Islands] Spain [Canary Islands]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Rwanda
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Georgia
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Nepal
• INDO-CHINA: Thailand

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sicily), Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares)

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Sonora]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

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