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.