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Asiatic Dayflower

Commercial communis

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Field Notes

Description:

herbaceous, annual, weed, simple leaf plant, with a small flower with 2 blue petals that look like mouse ears and one white petal, bloom only lasts one day, and is about a foot (12 inches) long; stems diffusely branched lye on the ground but with erect or rising tips - decumbent stems - that tend to root at the basal nodes; stems hairy or pubescent; leaves directly attached to stem with no petiole (sessile) are narrowly lance shaped and measure 3–12 cm (1 1⁄4–4 3⁄4 in) by 1–4 cm (1⁄2–1 1⁄2 in) wide

Habitat:

At the edge of the woods, disturbed site

Notes:

from China & Japan, easy to pull when weeding; identified by Niyla

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PublishedOctober 2, 2015

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