Taxon: Cotula coronopifolia L.

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Common names:

• bachelor's-button   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  
• brass-buttons   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• buttonweed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• water cotula   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• waterbuttons   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• eendjieskweek   (Source: Cape Pl ) – Afrikaans
  
• gansgras   (Source: Cape Pl ) – Afrikaans
  
• cotule   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• cotule à feuilles de sénebière   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• Krähenfuß-Laugenblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Wasserknopf   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• strandkotula   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa - Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Northern Cape, Western Cape

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Germany; Netherlands
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Massachusetts
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maryland
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Goldblatt, P. & J. Manning. 2000. Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. Strelitzia vol. 9.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Turner, B. L. 1996–. The comps of Mexico - a systematic account of the family Asteraceae. Phytologia Memoirs.
• Valdés, B. et al., eds. 2002. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cotula coronopifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cotula coronopifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cotula coronopifolia.

Check other web resources for Cotula coronopifolia L.:

• 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
• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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