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Wild Sunflower

Tithonia diversifolia

Photo by KdonGalay
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Field Notes

Description:

Small to medium-sized annual shrub with rather stout, almost glabrous branches. Leaves are alternate, petioled, membranaceous, ovate to orbicular, entire or 3- to 5-lobed, with toothed margins.

Habitat:

Introduced to the Philippines as an ornamental.
Has escaped cultivation to become a weed in waste places.

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