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Pectis tenuicaulis
Island chinchweed (Pectis tenuicaulis) is a small, summer-blooming annual in the daisy family, native to the Caribbean and northern South America, where it grows as a wild herb rather than a garden plant. It is seldom cultivated, so care advice is general and based on related Pectis species.
Pectis tenuicaulis, the island cinchweed, is a summer blooming annual plant in the genus Pectis.
Lemonscent · Caribbean chinchweed · Donkeyweed · Sonoran chinchweed · Tropical chinchweed · Fivebract chinchweed · Sanddune chinchweed · Yerba de San Juan · Beardless chinchweed · Florida chinchweed · West Indian chinchweed · Romero macho
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pectis tenuicaulis 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.
