Cotula heterocarpa Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Cotula

Characteristics

Annual, sprawling or ascending, villous herb, up to 300 mm high. Leaves alternate, pinnatipartite to bi-pinnatipartite, lobes linear. Capitula disciform, solitary, terminal, pedunculate; involucral bracts in several rows, oblong or ovate-oblong, glabrous or pubescent. Outer female florets in ± 2 rows, with minute ray, yellow. Disc florets tubular, yellow. Flowering time July-Apr. Pappus absent. Cypselae of ray florets winged, of disc florets oblong, subcompressed.
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Softly hairy, sprawling annual to 10 cm. Leaves alternate, bi-or tripinnatisect. Flower heads disciform, solitary on slender, naked peduncles, white or yellow.
A herb.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It can grow in arid places.
Light -
Soil humidity 3-5
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The leaves are eaten as a leafy green vegetable.
Uses food medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Cotula heterocarpa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:198483-1
WFO ID wfo-0000114782
COL ID 6B8F4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Cotula heterocarpa