Overview

Distribution

Pectis angustifolia Torr.:
United States (North America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
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National Distribution

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Global Range: Occurs from the Great Plains to Texas, Arizona, and northern Mexico.

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Physical Description

Morphology

Description

Annuals or perennials, 1–20 cm (caudices slender, woody); herbage lemon-scented or spicy-scented. Stems erect or ascending, glabrous or puberulent. Leaves linear, 10–45 × 1–3 mm, margins with 2–5 pairs of bristles 1–2 mm, faces glabrous (dotted with oil-glands 0.2–0.7 mm). Heads in congested, cymiform arrays. Peduncles 1–20 mm. Involucres narrowly campanulate or cylindric. Phyllaries distinct, linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 2.5–5.5 × 0.5–1 mm (dotted subterminally with 1 or 2 swollen oil-glands and submarginally with 2–5 pairs of smaller oil-glands). Ray florets 8; corollas 3–5(–7) mm (glandular puberulent or nearly glabrous). Disc florets (7–)10–20; corollas 2.5–3.5 mm (sometimes weakly 2-lipped, glandular puberulent). Cypselae 2.5–4 mm, strigillose (hair tips straight, forked); pappi coroniform and/or of 0–7 scabrid awns or bristles 1–2 mm.
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Type Information

Isotype for Pectis angustifolia var. subaristata A. Gray
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. Wright
Year Collected: 1849
Locality: Between the Pecos and the Limpia., Texas, United States, North America
  • Isotype: Gray, A. 1852. Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3 (5): 82.
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Isotype for Pectis papposa var. sessilis M.E. Jones
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): I. Diehl
Year Collected: 1903
Locality: Socorro, near Hillsbora., New Mexico, United States, North America
  • Isotype: Jones, M. E. 1908. Contr. W. Bot. 12: 46.
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Ecology

Population Biology

Number of Occurrences

Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: Unknown

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Conservation

Conservation Status

National NatureServe Conservation Status

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

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NatureServe Conservation Status

Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure

Reasons: Based on distribution (scattered).

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Global Short Term Trend: Unknown

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Wikipedia

Pectis angustifolia

Pectis angustifolia (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.

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