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Piper auritum is an aromatic culinary herb in the pepper family Piperaceae, which grows in tropical Central America.Common names include hoja santa (Spanish for 'sacred leaf'), [2] yerba santa, [3] [4] hierba santa, [3] Mexican pepperleaf, [4] acuyo, [4] tlanepa, [4] anisillo, [4] root beer plant, [2] Vera Cruz pepper [5] and sacred pepper.
Justicia spicigera (Mexican honeysuckle, firecracker bush, moyotle, moyotli, mohintli, muicle, trompetilla, yaxan, [2] or ych-kaan in Mayan) is an evergreen shrub with tubular orange flowers. [3] The species is native to the Bahamas , Belize , Colombia , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti ...
Lophospermum erubescens, known as Mexican twist [2] or creeping gloxinia, [3] is a climbing or sprawling herbaceous perennial plant, native to the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains of Mexico, where it is found along forest margins or canyon walls. It climbs by means of twining leaf stalks.
Its current taxonomic name Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides refer to its "pseudo" resemblance to some of the species within the gynoxys and chenopodioideae genus. 'Gynoxys' is derived from Greek terms of 'gyne' (female) and 'oxys' (spiny), which refers to the shape of the plant's female flower parts. 'Chenopodioides' means 'resembling goosefoot' in ...
Tagetes lucida is a perennial plant native to Mexico and Central America. It is used as a medicinal plant and as a culinary herb. The leaves have a tarragon-like scent, with hints of anise, and it has entered the nursery trade in North America as a tarragon substitute. Common names include sweetscented marigold, [3] Mexican marigold, Mexican ...
Calea ternifolia. Kunth. Synonyms. Calea zacatechichi Schltdl. Calea ternifolia (syn. Calea zacatechichi) [1] is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico and Central America. [1] Its English language common names include bitter-grass, Mexican calea, [1] and dream herb. [2]
Tagetes erecta, the Aztec marigold, Mexican marigold, big marigold, cempaxochitl or cempasúchil, [2][3] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tagetes native to Mexico and Guatemala. [4] Despite being native to the Americas, it is often called the African marigold. [5][4] In Mexico, this plant is found in the wild in the states of ...
This herbaceous annual or dwarf shrub grows to 0.3–1 m (1 ft 0 in – 3 ft 3 in) high, with ovate to triangular leaves 2–7 cm (0.79–2.76 in) long, and blue flowerheads (sometimes white, pink, or purple). The flower heads are borne in dense corymbs. The ray flowers are threadlike and fluff-haired, leading to the common name.