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Tagetes minuta (Tall Khaki Weed, Mexican Marigold)

Kakiebos, Langkakiebos [Afrikaans]; insangwana, unukani [Zulu]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Helenieae > Genus: Tagetes

An introduced weed in southern Africa.

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 318; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 108; Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 148.