Tridax procumbens L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tridax procumbens L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Hirsute, branched from the base, the branches spreading or ascending, slender, 2-5 dm. long. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, 2-6 cm. long, incised-dentate, acute or acuminate at the apex, mostly cuneate at the base; peduncles solitary, terminal, 1-3 dm. long; involucre subcampanulate, about 6 mm. high, its bracts hispid, the inner elliptic, the outer lanceolate; rays nearly white; aehenes about 2 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Waste places. Lignum Vitae Cay, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island and Fortune Island : Florida ; Cuba ; Grenada ; continental tropical America. Recorded by Hitchcock as Amellus aspera (Jacq.) Kuntze. Tridax.

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