French Marigold (Tagetes patula)

Family: Asteraceae or Compositae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Bloom Color: Orange, Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early summer, Early fall, Late summer, Late spring, Mid summer. Form: Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Leaves

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

refreshing drinks. — The flowers are used in refreshing drinks.; The leaves are used as a food flavouring.; No further details are given.; The essential oil is used as a food flavouring, though it is inferior to the oil obtained from T.

Habitat & North American Range

The pine-oak forest zone. Naturalized in California where it grows on waste ground. (Zone 2)