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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Asteraceae
Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.
false daisy, yerba-de-tajo
Eclipta: from Greek ekleipo meaning "deficient," and referring to the absence of a pappus
prostrata: prostrate
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | weakly erect to spreading, annual/perennial, hairy forb with many branches; often rooting at the stem nodes |
| Flower: | head 1/4" wide with whitish, minute disk flowers; inflorescence of 1-3 heads at the top of the stem or from the leaf axils; blooms Aug.-Oct. |
| Fruit: | thick, dry seed with no fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | lance-like to linear with a pointed tip, opposite, not divided |
| Habitat: | moist; bottomlands; in muddy soil |
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