Tagetes minuta
Tagetes minuta
Kokarot
Strong-smelling glabrous annual. Stems erect, 50-300 cm, with short branches. Lower leaves opposite, upper ones opposite or alternate; lamina pinnatisect, 3-15x 3-10 cm, with 3-8 pairs of lateral segments and larger terminal segment; segments serrate, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2-8 x 0,2-0,6 cm, upper pairs larger than lower and lowermost pair often minute. Inflorescence a dense terminal corymb; capitula usually numerous, pedicellate. Involucre cylindrical, 8-12x 1,5-2 mm; phyllaries 3-4, yellowish-green. Ray flowers yellowish-green, obovate-sphathulate, 1-3mm; disc flowers 4-5, green, 3-4 mm. Achenes black, linear, 4-6 x 0,5- fmm. Pappus consisting of 5 scales 0,5-3mm. Fl. To 11, Fields. And as a weed in public gardens. nr s.l.
Native of S. America; an agricultural weed elsewhere, being naturalised or at least casual in S. Europe, Caucasia, Yemen, Africa, Australia etc.
