Plant Details

Accepted name:: Tagetes erecta L. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
african marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
african marygold	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
afrikaantjes	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
american marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ayarrosa	Other	Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
aztec marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
aztec marigold zeaxanthin extract	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
badadas	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
banti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
barchatcy prjamostojaščie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
big marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
bunga merak	Other	Med. Pl. Kalimantan, Indonesia (Caniago et al., 1998)
bunga tahi ayam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cempasúchil	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001) Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
cempazúchitl	Other	Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017)
cempoalxochitl	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001) Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017)
cempoaxuchitl	Other	Wild Med. Pl. from SW Puebla, Mexico (Hersch-Martinez, 1995)
chandu hoo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chandu mallige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chendu mallige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cheonsugug	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chòu fú róng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chòu jú huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
cravo	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014)
cravo de defunto	Other	Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
cravo-de-defunto	Other	Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
daao rueang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
darken	Other	Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019)
dewali-pan	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
flor de muerto	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
french marigold	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
fēng wō jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
gainda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ganda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
genda	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gendaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gol jafari	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
gul-hazaaraa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gul-jaafari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hajara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hajari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hajri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hazari	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
hohe studentenblume	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
huáng jú huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jangli gainda	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jhandu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
jīn huá jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jīn jī jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kala-pan	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
kancappucceti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kembang emas	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kenikir	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kǒng què cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
le brgan	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
lutein	Other	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
lé gen	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
mahayak mal	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
makh mal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
makhamala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
maravilha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
marigold orange	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
marigold yellow	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
pabula tangni	Other	Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
phole mhendo	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
rabagasu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
rabakasu	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
rajiachaphul	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rajjachaphool	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
roji	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
rosa de los muertos	Other	Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
rosa sisa	Other	Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
sadbarg	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sadburga	Other	Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
saffron marigold	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sandu	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
santraj	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
satverga	Other	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
sayapatri	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
seem shaavanthige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seeme shavantige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seemeshyaavanthige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
senju-giku	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
shraavanashyaavanthige	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sthulapushpa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
stor tagetes	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
studentenblume	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
surji	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tagetes extract	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
tagète rose d'inde	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tahi ayam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tahi kotok	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
taphwa swan	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
taugla	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thurukasaamanthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thuruksaamanthi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
totika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
totikavantippa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tulukkaccevvanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tulukkamallikai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tulukkuccevvanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
turiyotacamanti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vedipu naaripoo	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
wan shou ju	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wàn shòu jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
wàn shòu jú yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xī fān jú	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zandu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
zanduga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
zendu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
zendu malli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ལེ་བརྒན།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
万寿菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
万寿菊叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
万寿菊花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
孔雀草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
柏花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
紅花	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
臭芙蓉	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
臭菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
臭菊花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
萬壽菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
萬瑞菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
蜂窝菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
蜂窩菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
裏苦艾	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
西番菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金华菊	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金花菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
金菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
金雞菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
黃菊	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003)
黄菊花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
	purified fraction obtained from saponification of the oleoresin	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
Leaves		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Flower		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
Flowers, Leaves		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Leaves		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
leaf, frond		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
flowers		Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017)
Leaf		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
flower		Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017)
entire plant, flower, leaf, aerial part		Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019)
flowers		Wild Med. Pl. from SW Puebla, Mexico (Hersch-Martinez, 1995)
whole plant, flower, leaves, florets	juice, oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
flower		Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007)
flower		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
petals	dried petals	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
oleoresin		U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020)
leaf		Med. Pl. Kalimantan, Indonesia (Caniago et al., 1998)
stem, leaf, flower		Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
aerial parts		Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009)
flower, leaf		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
flower, leaf		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)
leaf, whole plant		Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994)
Flower		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
flower	purified extract from flowers	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 10 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Tagetes patula L. Sp. Pl.: 887 (1753).
Tagetes corymbosa Sweet Brit. Fl. Gard. 2: t. 151 (1826).
Tagetes elongata Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 2127 (1803).
Tagetes erecta f. pleniflora Moldenke Phytologia 5: 92 (1954).
Tagetes heterocarpha Rydb. in N.L.Britton & al. (eds.), N. Amer. Fl. 34(2): 155 (1915).
Tagetes major Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 437 (1791), nom. superfl.
Tagetes patula aurantiaca T.Moore Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 1: 323 (1860).
Tagetes patula nanissima T.Moore Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 1: 323 (1860).
Tagetes remotiflora Kunze Linnaea 20: 23 (1847).
Tagetes tenuifolia Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp., ed. fol., 4: 153 (1818), nom. illeg.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Tagates patula	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Tagetes erecta	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Mexico (Heinrich et al., 1998) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Tagetes erecta L.	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Ethnobot. of Pangkhua Community in Bangladesh (Faruque, 2019) Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. Kalimantan, Indonesia (Caniago et al., 1998) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Used by Indig. Taiwan (CCMP, 2003) Med. Pl. by Health Professionals, Mexico (Alonso-Castro et al., 2017) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in N Peruvian Andes (Corroto et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of Chazuta Valley (Sanz-Biset et al., 2009) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Med. de S.Francisco Tlaltenco Tláhuac (Ortiz Palacios et al., 2017) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 43 (2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) Wild Med. Pl. from SW Puebla, Mexico (Hersch-Martinez, 1995) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tagetes erecta Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Tagetes erecta Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Tagetes erectus	Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005)
Tagetes patula	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
Tagetes patula L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Magic Pl. from a Market, Brazil (de Albuquerque et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. Nicarag. Atlantic Coast (Barrett, 1994) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Tagetes patulus	Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005)
Targetes erecta	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Targetes erecta L.	U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 37 (2013)

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