Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Tagetes minuta

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Seven Mile Beach near Berry

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, near Candelo

Line drawings. b. flowering branch and leaf; detail of leaf margin; flower head; seed. Elspeth Beckett, University of Oxford., © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board, Melbourne, Vic

Common name

Stinking Roger

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland, roadsides and other disturbed sites, and along streams. Coast, ranges, tablelands, and Kosciuszko National Park. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 2 m high. Stems hairless. Leaves strongly aromatic, opposite each other on the lower parts of the plant, alternating up the stems higher up, compound, to 10 cm long, with 3–11 leaflets, each 1.2–8 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, sticky, hairless, margins toothed, tips pointed. Flower heads with 1–4 cream to yellow ‘petals’ 1–3 mm long, and 4–7 greenish florets in the centre. Flower heads below the ‘petals’ cylindrical, 1.7-5 mm in diameter.  Bracts appressed to the flower heads 3-4, fused into a tube about 10 mm long except near the tips, yellow-green, marked with interrupted streaks. Flower heads in dense clusters. Flowering: February–August.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tagetes~minuta (accessed 9 February, 2021)