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Pectis imberbis
Also called Beardless Cinchweed, Tall Chinchweed
Pectis imberbis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Chihuahua and Sonora in Mexico and Arizona in the United States. It is known by the common names beardless chinchweed, beardless fetid-marigold, hierba de venado, and tall chinchweed.
This species is a perennial herb growing erect up to 1.2 meters tall from a woody caudex. The linear leaves are up to 5 centimeters long and only 1 or 2 millimeters wide. Flower heads are borne singly or in loose arrays. Each flower head has a cylindrical body lined with glandular phyllaries. It contains 5 yellow ray florets with a few disc florets at the center. The florets may turn reddish or purple with age. Flowering occurs after summer rainfall in August through October.
Lemonscent · Caribbean chinchweed · Donkeyweed · Sonoran chinchweed · Tropical chinchweed · Fivebract chinchweed · Sanddune chinchweed · Yerba de San Juan · Florida chinchweed · West Indian chinchweed · Romero macho · Longstalk chinchweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pectis imberbis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
