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§1 Plant
Pectis angustifolia Torr.
vernacular lemonscent — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Pectis
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 92 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 280 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–18 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.9–7.2
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 0.7 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 400,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 92 counties across 7 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Colfax 35007
- De Baca 35011
- Dona Ana 35013
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Guadalupe 35019
- Hidalgo 35023
- Lincoln 35027
- Luna 35029
- McKinley 35031
- Rio Arriba 35039
- Roosevelt 35041
- San Juan 35045
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bell 48027
- Bosque 48035
- Brewster 48043
- Coryell 48099
- Crane 48103
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dawson 48115
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Dimmit 48127
- Ector 48135
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Gaines 48165
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Loving 48301
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Terry 48445
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Williamson 48491
- Winkler 48495
- Yoakum 48501
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PEAN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5405568 ↗Record version
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