Asteraceae
Sweetscented marigold
Tagetes lucida
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Tagetes
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Common names
By language (15)
- Arabic
- مخملية لامعة
- arz
- مخمليه لامعه
- Chinese
- 香万寿菊
- English
- Sweetscented marigold, Pericón
- Estonian
- Läikiv peiulill
- Greek
- Ταγέτης ο στιλπνός
- Indonesian
- Kenikir manis, Kenikir legi, tarragon meksiko, mint mexico, gumitir wangi, tahi kotok londo
- Japanese
- ニオイマンジュギク
- Javanese
- Kenikir legi
- Lithuanian
- Blizgusis serentis
- nah
- Iyauhtli
- Russian
- Tagetes
- Spanish
- Pericon, Pericon ''(Tagetes lucida)'', Pericon (Tagetes lucida)', Pericón, Pericón ''(Tagetes lucida)'', Pericón (Tagetes lucida)'
- Swedish
- Glanstagetes
- Thai
- ดาวเรืองเม็กซิโก
Synonyms
- Tagetes anethina Sessé & Moc.
- Tagetes florida Sweet
- Tagetes lucida f. florida (Sweet) Voss
- Tagetes lucida f. lucida
- Tagetes lucida subsp. lucida
- Tagetes pineda La Llave
- Tagetes schiedeana Less.
- Tagetes seleri Rydb.
Flowers
- In flower
- July to October (from 1,660 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: IA braham, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: manfred.sause@volloeko.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Batres Mónica, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Justus Nussbaum, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: ferchus motta, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Traper Bemowski, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: de la cruz jimenez, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.