Indeterminate origin, herb species. Cryptogenic weed.
Other common names
Climbing Dayflower en, Creeping Day Flower en, Creeping Spiderwort en, Day Flower en, Spreading Dayflower en, Water Grass en, French Weed en, Scrambling Dayflower en.
Distribution
American Samoa, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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