Tagetes linifolia Seaton

Tagetes linifolia Seaton, Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 120. 1893
A glabrous perennial, with a short woody caudex; stems several, erect, slender, purpletinged, about 3 dm. high; leaves opposite or rarely alternate above, pinnate, 2-4 cm. long; leaflets 7-11, narrowly linear, 1-2 cm. long, entire, apiculate or spinulose-tipped, with two rows of glands; heads solitary at the end of the stems; peduncles about 1 dm. long, slender, not thickened upwards; involucre narrowly campanulate-turbinate, 12-13 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, glabrous; bracts 5, with triangular, acuminate tips, and with two rows of 4 or 5 marginal glands and a single gland in the tip, the lower two pairs of glands being elongate-linear, the rest short, oval or elliptic; ray-flowers 5; ligules yellow, obcordate, 12-16 mm. long; diskflowers 25-40; corollas 8 mm. long, glabrous; tube only 2 mm. long; throat elongate-funnelform; lobes lanceolate; achenes 6-7 mm. long, angled, scabrous; pappus of the disk-flowers of two subulate acute squamellae 6-7 mm. long, and 3 oblong truncate ones only 2-3 mm. long; that of the ray-flowers of only short truncate squamellae.
Type locality: Rocky hills near Esperanza [Puebla].
Distribution: Type locality and vicinity.

Tagetes linifolia is a North American species of wild marigold in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the States of Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Puebla in Mexico.

Tagetes linifolia is an hairless herb about 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 7-11 leaflets. The plant produces one flower head per branch, each head with 5 yellow ray florets and 25-30 disc florets.