Tagetes patulaL.

French marigold

WFO wfo-0000038593 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tagetes patula, photographed by Dragonette
fig. a Dragonette, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-17 / obs. 179653939
Tagetes patula, photographed by Dragonette
fig. b Dragonette, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141129204
Tagetes patula, photographed by Rejoice Gassah
fig. c Rejoice Gassah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128356076
Tagetes patula, photographed by Rejoice Gassah
fig. d Rejoice Gassah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128355690
Tagetes patula, photographed by Wang.QG
fig. e Wang.QG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171846545
Tagetes patula, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. f Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97106580
Tagetes patula, photographed by Julien Lepage
fig. g Julien Lepage, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114516382
Tagetes patula, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. h Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 66405921

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Where it actually grows measured, from 1,105 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.1 °C 1.1 °C 16.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.2 °C 25.3 °C 34.1 °C
Annual rainfall 433 mm 805 mm 2,437 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 14 mm 102 mm 275 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,105 research-grade observations of Tagetes patula that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.