Taxon: Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

OK(as Eclipta alba)*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• eclipta   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• false daisy   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• white eclipta   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• white twinheads   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• li chang   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• éclipte blanche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• takasaburoo   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• hanryeoncho   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• hierba de tajo   (Source: Glea Cron ) – Spanish
  
• yerba de tajo   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – Spanish
  
• vitknapp   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Ayurveda Ency, as E. erecta)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Morocco
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Solomon Islands; Wallis and Futuna Islands

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Belgium
  Southeastern Europe: Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Gabon

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Eclipta prostrata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Eclipta prostrata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Eclipta erecta L.
  
• (=) Eclipta punctata L.
  
• (=) Verbesina alba L.
  
• (≡) Verbesina prostrata L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

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• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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