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Dysphania ambrosioides
Also called Lamb's quarters, Pigweed, Mexican tea, Wormseed, Jerusalem Tea, Spanish Tea, American Wormseed
Dysphania ambrosioides (epazote, Mexican tea, wormseed) is an annual or short-lived perennial herb native to the Americas, growing to about 1.2 m and often self-seeding as a weed. It is grown for its aromatic leaves in warm climates and is most useful as a sun-loving garden herb.
Dysphania ambrosioides, formerly Chenopodium ambrosioides, known as epazote, Jesuit's tea, Mexican tea or wormseed, is an annual or short-lived perennial herb native to the Americas.
Humans have died from overdoses of D. ambrosioides essential oils (attributed to the ascaridole content). Symptoms include severe gastroenteritis with pain, vomiting, and diarrhea, dizziness, headache, temporary deafness, kidney and liver damage, convulsions, paralysis, death.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dysphania ambrosioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
