Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc.

  • Description

    Species Description - Herbaceous, prostrate or with ascending branches, sparingly strigose pubescent, often rooting at the nodes, 3-10 dm. long. Leaves somewhat fleshy, elliptic to obovate, 2-12 cm. long, obtuse or acute at the apex, dentate, often several-lobed, narrowed or cuneate at the base, triplinerved and pinnately veined, sessile or nearly so; peduncles solitary in the upper axils, 2-14 cm. long; involucre 7-12 mm. long, its bracts oblong-obovate, foliaceous; rays about 10, bright yellow, 10-15 mm. long; achenes 5 mm. long, tuberculate.

  • Distribution

    Moist places along the coast, New Providence : Florida ; West Indies ; Honduras to Colombia. Trailing Wedelia.

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