Taxon: Galinsoga parviflora Cav.

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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

Common names:

• dumb-nettle   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• galinsoga-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• gallant-soldier   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• potato-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small-flower galinsoga   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• yellow-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• kleinblütiges Knopfkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Zranzosenkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• 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)
  
• gängel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

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

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay - Central, Guaira; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Middle Atlantic Ocean: St. Helena - Ascension
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Novosibirsk
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Oregon
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Austral Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Vanuatu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile - Juan Fernandez

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Montenegro; Serbia; Slovenia

• exact native range in Americas obscure

References:

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• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Canne, J. M. 1977. A revision of the genus Galinsoga (Compositae: Heliantheae). Rhodora 79:373–380.
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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Galinsoga parviflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Galinsoga parviflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Galinsoga parviflora.

Check other web resources for Galinsoga parviflora Cav.:

• 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
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

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