Tagetes

Accepted species 54 Documented here 22 Family Asteraceae

Accepted species 54 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Tagetes minuta L. 575 documented
Tagetes lucida Cav. 161 documented
Tagetes lunulata Ortega 125 documented
Tagetes filifolia Lag. 78 documented
Tagetes tenuifolia Cav. 75 documented
Tagetes micrantha Cav. 74 documented
Tagetes erecta L. 42 documented
Tagetes patula L. 41 documented
Tagetes zypaquirensis Bonpl. 25 documented
Tagetes lemmonii A.Gray 21 documented
Tagetes subulata Cerv. 21 documented
Tagetes multiflora Kunth 17 documented
Tagetes epapposa B.L.Turner 11 documented
Tagetes moorei H.Rob. 10 documented
Tagetes foetidissima hort. ex DC. 8 documented
Tagetes argentina Cabrera 6 documented
Tagetes nelsonii Greenm. 6 documented
Tagetes campanulata Griseb. 4 documented
Tagetes lacera Brandegee 3 documented
Tagetes terniflora Kunth 3 documented
Tagetes triradiata Greenm. 3 documented
Tagetes verticillata Lag. & Rod. 3 documented
Tagetes linifolia Seaton 1 below the evidence gate
Tagetes apetala Posada-Ar. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes arenicola Panero & VillaseƱor 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes biflora Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes coronopifolia Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes daucoides Schrad. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes elliptica Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes elongata Willd. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes gilletii De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes hartwegii Greenm. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes iltisiana H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes inclusa Muschl. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes laxa Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes mandonii Sch.Bip. ex Klatt 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes mendocina Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes microglossa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes minima L. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes mulleri S.F.Blake 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes oaxacana B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes osteni Hicken 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes palmeri A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes parryi A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes perezi Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes persicifolia (Benth.) B.L.Turner 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes praetermissa (Strother) H.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes pringlei S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes pusilla Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes riojana M.Ferraro 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes rupestris Cabrera 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes stenophylla B.L.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes subvillosa Lag. 0 below the evidence gate
Tagetes zypaquinensis Bonpl. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.