Tagetes lacera Brandeg.

Tagetes lacera Brand. Zoe 1: 314. 1S90
A glabrous perennial or annual; stems several from the base, erect, terete, often 1 m. high; leaves opposite or alternate, 10-15 cm. long; rachis more or less margined and toothed; leaflets 7-11, lanceolate, acute, serrate; rachis, lower teeth, and the leaflets of the upper leaves bristlepointed; peduncles 5-15 cm. long, thickened upwards; involucre campanulate, 12-15 mm. long, 7-8 mm. broad; bracts 8-10, with triangular tips, and with two lateral rows of 3 or 4 glands and a single gland in the free portion; lower glands linear, the upper 3 oblong; ligules yellow, oblong, retuse, 8-10 mm. long; disk-corollas 7-8 mm. long, pubescent; achenes 8 mm. long, hirsutulous; pappus of 1-4, usually 2, subulate, awn-tipped squamellae, 5-6 mm. long, and several minute, lacerate, obovate ones.
Type locality: Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California. Distribution: Lower California.

Tagetes lacera is a Mexican species of marigolds in the family Asteraceae. It has been found only in the State of Baja California Sur in western Mexico.

Tagetes lacera is a hairless perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound, up to 15 cm (6 inches) long including a large leaflet at the end much larger than the side leaflets and about half the length of the leaf. The plant produces one yellow Flower head per branch.