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Oppositeleaf Spotflower

Acmella repens

Also called Creeping Spotflower

Oppositeleaf Spotflower
Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
C. & SE. U.S.A. to Venezuela and Paraguay, Cuba
Climate
subtropical

About

Acmella repens is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. The plant is native to the southeastern and south-central United States, primarily in the coastal plain from Texas to North Carolina and in the lower Mississippi Valley from Missouri to Louisiana. There are additional populations in Coahuila in northeastern Mexico.

Other Acmella plants

Marsh Para Cress · Acmella leucantha · Brazilian Cress · Hairy spotflower · Dwarf spotflower · Marsh Para Cress · Spotflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acmella repens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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