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2. Mosquito repellents for the Texas summer that tested ... - AOL

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   Mosquitoes don’t like plants like citronella, geraniums, lemongrass, lavender, lantanas, rosemary and petunias, according to a report by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Similar to smoke-based ...

3. These Insanely Helpful Garden Plants Keep The Mosquitoes Away

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   One study also found that catnip oil was more effective as a spatial repellent (meaning, it creates a mosquito-less zone) than DEET. Again, this was a study on catnip oil—not the plant—but ...

4. Do Mosquito-Repelling Plants Really Work? Here's What You ...

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   Sadly, not exactly. “Currently, the scientific community doesn’t recognize any plants that effectively repel mosquitoes,” says entomologist Elmer Gray, with the University of Georgia. “The ...

5. Agastache cana - Wikipedia

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   Agastache cana, more commonly known as the mosquito plant, Texas hummingbird mint, and double bubble mint, is a hardy perennial belonging to the genus Agastache (pronounced / ˌæɡəˈstɑːkiː / ). The genus name Agastache is derived from the Greek word meaning "a lot of", and stachy, meaning "spike", which refers to the flower's 12 terminal ...

6. Mentha pulegium - Wikipedia

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   Mentha pulegium. L. Mentha pulegium, commonly (European) pennyroyal, or pennyrile, also called mosquito plant [1] and pudding grass, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. [3] Crushed pennyroyal leaves emit a very strong fragrance similar to spearmint.

7. Leucophyllum frutescens - Wikipedia

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   Leucophyllum frutescens is an evergreen shrub in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, native to the U.S. state of Texas, where it is the official "State Native Shrub of Texas", and to the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas in northern Mexico. Although commonly known as Texas sage, it is not a true sage and is distinct from the ...