Taxon: Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski

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

Common names:

• creeping oxeye   (Source: Novon 6:410. 1996) – English
  
• goldcup   (Source: Zander Ency [as Wedelia trilobata]) – English
  
• Singapore daisy   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• wedelia   (Source: Novon 6:410. 1996) – English
  
• wild marigold   (Source: Novon 6:410. 1996) – English
  
• Singapoer-madeliefie   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as Thelechitonia trilobata]) – Afrikaans
  
• ampelkrage   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed13, as Wedelia trilobata; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Novon 6:404-418. 1996)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001, as Thelechitonia trilobata)
  

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View toxicology references for Sphagneticola trilobata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Guinea; Sierra Leone
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga
  Western Indian Ocean: Mayotte
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Kerala
  Indo-China: Thailand
  Malesia: Indonesia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Kiribati - Gilbert Islands; Nauru; New Caledonia; Samoa; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.)

• widely cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Breedlove, D. E., ed. 1981–. Flora of Chiapas.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. [= Thelechitonia trilobata].
• 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.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Pruski, J. F. 1996. Compositae of the Guayana Highland: 11. Tuberculocarpus gen. nov. and some other Ecliptinae (Heliantheae). Novon 6:412.
• 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.
• Vásquez M., R. et al. 2002. Adiciones a la Flora Peruana: especies nuevas, nuevos registros y estados taxonómicos de las Angiospermas para el Perú. Arnaldoa 9(2):61.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sphagneticola trilobata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sphagneticola trilobata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sphagneticola trilobata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Complaya trilobata (L.) Strother
  
• (≡) Silphium trilobatum L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Thelechitonia trilobata (L.) H. Rob. & Cuatrec.
  
• (=) Wedelia carnosa Rich.
  
• (≡) Wedelia trilobata (L.) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski:

• 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 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
• 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:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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