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Taxon: Galinsoga parviflora Cav.

Genus: Galinsoga
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 104241
Place of publication: Icon. 3(2):41, t. 281. 1795-1796
Name verified on: 06-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 05-Nov-2002
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
AK*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • gallant soldier   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • small-flower galinsoga   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  • botão-de-ouro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • fazendeiro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • picão-branco   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic importance:

  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • worldwide weed

      Other:
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    United States [probable native range from s.w. United States to South America]

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
  • Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
  • Boonman, J. G. 1993. East Africa's grasses and fodders: their ecology and husbandry. 136.
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Canne, J. M. 1977. Rhodora 79:319–389.
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
  • Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
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Check other databases for Galinsoga parviflora Cav.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?104241 (09 February 2010)

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