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Tridax procumbens
Also called Tridax Daisy, Coat buttons, Coatbuttons, Tridax Daisy, Tridax
In Singapore: Coat Buttons, Kanching Baju, 羽芒菊 (Grown in Singapore)
Coatbuttons is a low, spreading tropical daisy-family plant best known as a widespread weed rather than a garden plant. It thrives in sun and warm, disturbed ground, and its prolific wind-blown seeds make it hard to keep out.
Tridax procumbens, commonly known as coatbuttons or tridax daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is best known as a widespread weed and pest plant. It is native to the tropical Americas including Mexico, but it has been introduced to tropical, subtropical, and mild temperate regions worldwide. It is listed as a noxious weed in the United States and has pest status in nine states.
Traditionally, Tridax procumbens has been in use in India for wound healing and as an anticoagulant, antifungal, and insect repellent. Animal studies have found that Tridax procumbens Linn. has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. It is also used as a treatment for boils, blisters, and cuts by local healers in parts of India. It's leaves extract are useful for stopping the bleeding after leech bites.
[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 Tridax procumbens 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.
