Pectis
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Pectis is a genus of plants in the daisy family
known generally as cinchweeds in current usage. Older books call them "chinchweeds." Pectis is native to the Americas, including the Caribbean. These plants vary in appearance but they usually bear yellow daisylike flowers.
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Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
known generally as cinchweeds in current usage. Older books call them "chinchweeds." Pectis is native to the Americas, including the Caribbean. These plants vary in appearance but they usually bear yellow daisylike flowers.
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- Pectis angustifoliaPectis angustifoliaPectis angustifolia is a summer blooming annual plant which is found in Western North America, generally from Nebraska and Colorado to Arizona and Mexico. It is in flower from July to October, and the seeds ripen from September to October. Lemonscented cinchweed cannot grow in the shade. The plant...
- lemonscented cinchweed - Pectis carthusianorumPectis carthusianorumPectis carthusianorum is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis, found in Puerto Rico.-External links:**...
- Caribbean cinchweed - Pectis ciliarisPectis ciliarisPectis ciliaris is a species of cinchweed and is an annual plant. Its floral region is the Caribbean, mainly Puerto Rico....
- donkeyweed - Pectis cylindricaPectis cylindricaPectis cylindrica is an annual plant and species of pectis. Pectis cylindrica's floral region is generally in the south of the USA, in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Pectis cylindrica is similar to Pectis prostrata and the two occasionally grow together...
- Sonoran cinchweed - Pectis elongataPectis elongataPectis elongata is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis. Its floral region is Puerto Rico. Tropical cinchweed is burned as a mosquito repellent. It is also known as cympogon citratus....
- tropical cinchweed - Pectis filipesPectis filipesPectis filipes is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis. Pectis filipes is the more southern species of pectis found in the Gila National Forest....
- Fivebract cinchweed - Pectis glaucescensPectis glaucescensPectis glaucescens is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis, or cinchweed. Its floral region is generally in the US state of Florida. It is a freely-branching annual weed with opposing leaves in narrow rows. Leaves contain rows of oil glands on the lower surface. It has long-stalked...
- Sanddune cinchweed - Pectis humifusaPectis humifusaPectis humifusa is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis. In the Lesser Antilles, it occurs most frequently in the salt spray zone near the seashore; on some islands, it occurs inland as well. Its floral region is Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands and Florida....
- Yerba de San Juan - Pectis imberbisPectis imberbisPectis imberbis is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis. Its floral region is mostly in Arizona....
- Beardless cinchweed - Pectis linearifoliaPectis linearifoliaPectis linearifolia is a summer blooming annual plant and is a genus of pectis. Although the plant exhibits the ecology of an introduced non-native plant, it is known with certainty only from south Florida, and must be regarded as native in view of current distribution data...
- Florida cinchweed - Pectis linearisPectis linearisPectis linearis is a summer blooming annual plant and is a genus of pectis. Its floral region is generally Puerto Rico and The Virgin Islands....
- West Indian cinchweed - Pectis linifoliaPectis linifoliaPectis linifolia is a summer blooming annual plant and genus of pectis. Its floral region is Hawaii, Puerto Rico and The Virgin Islands, specifically in the states of Arizona and Florida....
- romero macho - Pectis longipesPectis longipesPectis longipes is a summer blooming annual plant and is a genus of pectis. Its floral region is in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico....
- Longstalk cinchweed - Pectis papposaPectis papposaPectis papposa is a summer blooming annual plant which is found across the desert southwest from New Mexico to California and northern Mexico at elevations below...
- manybristle cinchweed, limoncillo - Pectis prostrataPectis prostrataPectis prostrata is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus pectis. The development of roads and highways has created ideal habitats for pectis prostrata. Its range is expanding along the coasts of Florida, it was recently discovered in Louisiana. It is expected to spread along the Gulf Coast...
- spreading cinchweed - Pectis rusbyiPectis rusbyiPectis rusbyi is a summer blooming annual plant and a genus of pectis. Its floral region is Arizona....
- Rusby's cinchweed - Pectis tenuicaulisPectis tenuicaulisPectis tenuicaulis is a summer blooming annual plant and is a genus of pectis....
- island cinchweed