Galinsoga parviflora

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Growing form

Annual herb that forms a bush

Size

20-80 cm

Stem

Smooth to sparsely hairy, erect to sprawling, and heavily branched.

Leaf

Simple-opposite, lower leaves with petioles, upper ones without petioles. Leaf blade oval to oblong with a sharp apex. Shallowly toothed with fine hairs around the edges

Flower

Located at the end of smooth or short-hairy stalks arising from the leaf axils in the upper plant and at the tips of branching stems. Each capitulum bears two types of flower: ligulate female white flowers at the margin and tubular hermaphrodite yellow flowers in the central disc

Fruit and seed

Both the ray and disk flowers produce a dry seed, with 5 or more narrow scales attached at the tip, each scale fringed around the edge.
Source: Pinkka e-learning: IPS-175 Flora and vegetation of East Africa - Crop plants, weeds and invading species CC BY 4.0

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Observations
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Checklist
MR.1
Scientific name
Galinsoga parviflora
Author
Cav.
Vernacular names
  • tarhasaurikki (Finnish)
  • gängel (Swedish)
Identifier
http://tun.fi/MX.39801
Taxon rank
species
Occurrence in Finland
Collected from Finland
Status in Finland
  • TNV - alien, new, resident
Finnish Regional Red List Category
  • 2019 NA – Not Applicable
  • 2010 NA – Not Applicable
Expert
  • Arto Kurtto
DNA barcode sequences
Galinsoga parviflora
22 public records
Informal groups
  • Vascular plants
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