Intro: Erect to ascending annual/short-lived perennial from a woody base, found in gardens, fields, stream banks, roadsides and other open, disturbed areas. Native to tropical America and possibly southern parts of N. America.

Stems: Stems angular or grooved, branching, sticky-hairy and with glandular resin dots.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, lance-shaped, 1-3 in. long (reduced upward), entire to prominently toothed, gland-dotted and with a kerosene-like smell.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in dense axillary and terminal, leafy-bracted, ascending spikes; green or reddish; tiny; closed and consisting of 3-5 sepals.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, glossy, dark brown achene.

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Height: 1-4 1/2 ft.

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description: Erect to ascending annual/short-lived perennial from a woody base, found in gardens, fields, stream banks, roadsides and other open, disturbed areas. Native to tropical America and possibly southern parts of N. America.

stems: Stems angular or grooved, branching, sticky-hairy and with glandular resin dots.

leaves: Leaves alternate, petiolate, lance-shaped, 1-3 in. long (reduced upward), entire to prominently toothed, gland-dotted and with a kerosene-like smell.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in dense axillary and terminal, leafy-bracted, ascending spikes; green or reddish; tiny; closed and consisting of 3-5 sepals.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, glossy, dark brown achene.

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native range: s. Mexico, Central & South America