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Glinus lotoides
Also called Damascisa, Hairy Carpetweed
Glinus lotoides is a low, spreading annual herb in the Molluginaceae family, native to parts of Eurasia and Africa and grown or found as a weed elsewhere. It thrives in seasonally wet or flooded ground and is grown mainly as a leafy vegetable and medicinal plant.
Glinus lotoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Molluginaceae known by the common names damascisa and lotus sweetjuice. It is native to Eurasia and Africa and it is known in many other places as an introduced species.
This plant is found in seasonally inundated land and has many traditional uses in cultures across its large native range, as medicine and as food. Young leaves and stems of Glinus lotoides are used as a vegetable in some tropical countries.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
