Tagetes lucida Best Seller and swamps

and swamps

A rare evergreen tree from southern China

and by the late nineteenth century the berries had entered European and American herbal practice for urinary and reproductive complaints

affectionately known as Turk's cap

Otherwise known in the United States only from southernmost Florida

Tagetes lucida Best Seller and swampsTagetes lucida is the herb that does it all. Known as Mexican tarragon, Mexican mint marigold, pericn, and, in the old Aztec tongue, yauhtli, this fragrant perennial from Mexico and Central America earns every name. The narrow, glossy, deep green leaves carry a warm anise tarragon scent and flavor, and in late summer and fall the plant scatters small, single, golden yellow marigold flowers across a tidy foot and a half mound. In the kitchen, Mexican