Common Name: lesser roundweed
Family: Lamiaceae
Common Synonyms: Hyptis acuta
USDA Hardiness Zone: NA
Growth Habit: Herb
Origin: Tropical America
FISC Category: -
FDACS Listed Noxious Weed: No
Introduction Date: Florida herbarium specimen from 2015
IFAS Assessment:
Tall, erect herb with square stems. Leaves are opposite and coarsely hairy with very short petioles, decurrent leaf bases, and irregularly toothed margins. Flowers are formed in tight, round clusters held on short stalks in the leaf axils. Each cluster of flowers is about 1 cm in diameter. Individual flowers are white and very small (<0.5 cm).
Agricultural and waste areas
Common exotic weed in southeast Asia. Similar to the native H. alata which has longer flower stalks
No specific recommendations available
eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org [accessed 2 August 2017] Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Parker, C., Barney P. Caton, & Larry Fowler. (2007). Ranking Nonindigenous Weed Species by Their Potential to Invade the United States. Weed Science, 55(4), 386-397. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4539588. Fact sheet for Hyptis brevipes available from http://wssa.net/wp-content/uploads/Hyptis-brevipes.pdf