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In Singapore: Common Salomonia, Rumput Buak (Grown in Singapore)
Salomonia cantoniensis is a small annual herb of the milkwort family (Polygalaceae) found in grassy and open areas of forests and roadsides across tropical and subtropical Asia. It is a wild plant rarely grown in gardens, so it grows from seed each year.
Salomonia cantoniensis is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Polygalaceae. It is an annual erect herb seen in grassy areas, open areas in primary and secondary forests and along roads and paths.
It is native to Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, the Caroline Islands, South-Central and Southeast China, East and West Himalaya, India, Java, Laos, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, the Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, the Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam (type).
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salomonia cantoniensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
