My two pesos worth - early messages in this unnoticed thread long gone: May finally have lost this here in northeast KS, where it volunteered for ?? years, but this year got a late start and I'm pretty sure it didn't set seed. Would be glad to learn it's readily available since I never got around to what I always thought would be the greatest use for it - namely, stuffing a mattress. > I do mean T. minuta. I'm beginning to suspect that it's only the roots > that are toxic, although the leaves are not. The leaves are used in the > South American cooking. Even Richters identifies it as a culinary herb > that is nematocidal, herbicidal, etc. Perhaps they elucidate in one of > their herbalgrams. I could look, I guess. Best, Margaret BK--- not exactly kidding - one of the things I've always been tempted to do, and never done, is to get down and roll around in a big patch of marigolds