Pectis glaucescens (Cass.) D.J.Keil is a plant in the Asteraceae family, order Asterales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Pectis glaucescens (Cass.) D.J.Keil

Pectis glaucescens (Cass.) D.J.Keil

Pectis glaucescens is a summer-blooming annual Asteraceae plant native to parts of Florida and the Caribbean.

Family
Genus
Pectis
Order
Asterales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Pectis glaucescens (Cass.) D.J.Keil

Pectis glaucescens, commonly called sanddune cinchweed or tea blinkum, is a summer-blooming annual plant species belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is native to Florida, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. This species is a freely-branching annual weed that produces opposite leaves arranged in narrow rows. The lower surface of its leaves holds rows of oil glands. It bears yellow flowers on long stalks, and produces two to five small-scale fruits.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Asterales Asteraceae Pectis

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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