Taxon: Tridax procumbens 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 noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

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:

AL*, FL*, MA*, NC*, PR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• coat-buttons   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• tridax daisy   (Source: WorldWeeds 867. 1997) – English
  
• erva-de-touro   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 867. 1997)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 867. 1997)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; 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; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Galapagos Islands, Guayas; Peru - Huanuco
  Southern South America: Argentina - Cordoba, Formosa, Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Mayotte; Reunion; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  China: China - Fujian, Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: British Indian Ocean Terr - Diego Garcia
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; U.S. Outlying Islands - Wake Island
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia; Kiribati - Line Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Kiribati - Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands; Nauru; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Breedlove, D. E., ed. 1981–. Flora of Chiapas.
• Bulacio, E. et al. 1997. Addition to the distribution area of Tridax procumbens (Asteraceae). Lilloa 39:95.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Fosberg, F. R. & M.-H. Sachet. 1975–. Flora of Micronesia, Smithsonian Contr. Bot.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
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• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Hyde, M. et al. Flora of Mozambique (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Powell, A. 1965. Taxonomy of Tridax (Compositae). Brittonia 17:80.
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• 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.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turner, I. M. 1995. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bull. Singapore vol. 47.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wursten, B. et al. Flora of Zimbabwe (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tridax procumbens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tridax procumbens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tridax procumbens.

Check other web resources for Tridax procumbens L.:

• 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
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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• 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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