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Pectis angustifolia
Also called Narrowleaf Pectis
Lemonscent (Pectis angustifolia), also called narrowleaf pectis or lemonscented cinchweed, is a summer-blooming annual in the daisy family with lemon-scented foliage, native from the central U.S. to Arizona and northeast Mexico. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and it grows from seed each year.
Pectis angustifolia, the lemonscented cinchweed, 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 is carminative and emetic. The crushed leaves have been used in the treatment of stomach aches.
Among the Hopi of Arizona it was known as taichima and was eaten boiled with green corn.
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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.
