Common Name: Benghal dayflower
Family: Commelinaceae
Common Synonyms: none
USDA Hardiness Zone: 8 to 11
Growth Habit: Herb
Origin: Africa, Asia, Pacific
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: Yes
Introduction Date: Earliest Florida herbarium specimen from 1928
IFAS Assessment:
An annual or perennial creeping herb which readily roots at the nodes. Leaves are ovate to elliptical to 4cm long and 2.5cm wide with a base narrowed into a petiole. Flowers have 3 lilac-blue petals 3-4 cm long, the lower one smaller and whitish. Also produces white underground rhizomes with reduced leaves and modified flowers which produce subterranean seeds.
A wide variety of disturbed habitats particularly a weed in agricultural fields
Found in wet and dry conditions.
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Invasive Species Compendium (http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/14977)
UofF / IFAS EDIS: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ag230