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A small native perennial herb of the coffee family from southern Florida, found in the Everglades and near Lake Okeechobee. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care guidance is limited.
Spermacoce neoterminalis, the Everglades Key false buttonweed or Everglade Key bouvardia, is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae. It is endemic to southern Florida, from the Everglades as far north as Lake Okeechobee.
Spermacoce neoterminalis is a perennial herb with a woody root. Stems are up to 40 cm tall, generally not branching above the ground. Leaves are elliptical. Flowers are small, white, clustered in terminal and axillary glomerules.
Winged false buttonweed · Spermacoce brachysepala · Smooth false buttonweed · Spermacoce keyensis · Prostrate false buttonweed · Broadleaf false buttonweed · Prostrate false buttonweed · Woodland False Buttonweed · Shrubby false buttonweed · False buttonweed
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spermacoce neoterminalis 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.
