Indeterminate origin, herb species. Cryptogenic weed.
Other common names
Hatisur en, Indian Heliotrope en, Indian String-of-Stars en, Da Wei Yao zh, Turnsole en, 印度天芹菜 zh, 大尾摇 zh, 狗尾草 zh.
Distribution
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caribbean Netherlands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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