Marigold

Food and health uses

• The species Tagetes lucida, known as pericón, is used to prepare a sweetish, anise-flavored medicinal tea in Mexico. It is also used as a culinary herb in many warm climates, as a substitute for tarragon, and offered in the nursery as "Texas tarragon" or "Mexican mint marigold"

• Tagetes minuta is used as a culinary herb in Peru, Ecuador, and parts of Chile and Bolivia. The paste is used to make the popular potato dish called ocopa. 

• It is also used as a medicinal tea in some areas

More information

• Purdue University

• Wikipedia

• University of Hawaii

• University of Florida

• Missouri Botanical Garden