| Dicotyledon | Literature for Tridax procumbens
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family | Bibliography |
| Tridax procumbens | |
Common name(s): coat buttons |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Apparently native only from Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, but now widespread throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Taprooted, perennial herb; stems ascending to procumbent, often rooting at the nodes, 1.5‒4 dm long, sparsely to densely hirsute. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves short-petiolate; blade ovate to lanceolate, 2‒7(‒12) cm long, 1‒4(‒6) cm wide, both surfaces sparsely to densely hirsute and often rough to the touch, 3-lobed, margin undulate; petiole 0.4‒3 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Heads campanulate, solitary on long peduncle (7‒)10‒18(‒20) cm long; involucral bracts 3.5‒6.5(‒8) mm long; ray florets 3‒6 per head, rays white, rarely pale yellow, 2.5‒4(‒5) mm long; disk corollas pale yellow, 5‒6.5(‒7) mm long; pappus of ca. 20 plumose bristles unequal in length, that of ray florets reduced. |
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| Fruit |
Achenes black, cylindrical to narrowly obconical, 2‒2.5 mm long, densely pilose. |
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| Seeds |
2n = 36 |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
