Tagetes ternifloraKunth

WFO wfo-0000060051 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tagetes terniflora, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. a Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-03-31 / obs. 22926603
Tagetes terniflora, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. b Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22926590
Tagetes terniflora, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. c Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22926606

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3062258
Filed as
Tagetes terniflora Kunth
Det. by
Schiavinato, Dario J.
Collected
A. Fournet 1986-05-08
Origin
BO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. We link to the digitised sheet rather than rehosting it, because the holding institutions do not serve their images to third parties reliably and we are not going to show you a picture we cannot actually deliver. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Tagetes terniflora is native: Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Argentina NorthwestBoliviaColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Tagetes terniflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tagetes cabrerae M.Ferraro
  • Tagetes gigantea Carrière
  • Tagetes gigantea Carr.
  • Tagetes graveolens L'Hér.
  • Tagetes graveolens L'Hér. ex DC.
  • Tagetes tinctoria Walp.

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. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.