Zornia latifolia Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Zornia

Characteristics

A herb. It grows 20-50 cm long. It has a taproot. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows along the ground and branches often. The flowers are small and yellow.
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Often remaining green throughout the dry season
A wiry perennial herb
Flowers yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.25
Root system tap-root
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant It can grow in hot places. It needs good sun. It is best in a well-drained acid soil. In Argentina it grows below 500 m above sea level.
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Open fields and grassy areas.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use fodder food gene source material medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 18 - 28
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Zornia latifolia habit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Zornia latifolia habit picture by Denis Bastianelli (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Zornia latifolia flower picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)
Zornia latifolia flower picture by Saenz Daniel (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Zornia latifolia world distribution map, present in Angola, Argentina, American Samoa, Burundi, Benin, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guinea, French Guiana, Guyana, Liberia, Madagascar, Mexico, Mali, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Togo, Uruguay, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30156577-2
WFO ID wfo-0000176622
COL ID 7GH4K
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 733810
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Zornia gemella Zornia surinamensis Zornia maranhamensis Zornia gracilis Zornia pubescens Zornia latifolia var. bernardinensis Zornia latifolia var. latifolia Zornia diphylla subsp. gracilis Zornia diphylla var. gracilis Zornia diphylla var. bernardinensis Zornia latifolia