Common names: yerba de tajo

Scientific names: Eclipta prostrata (E. alba)

Seasons of significant use: summer

Characteristics: : Possibly introduced and naturalized, annual, warm season forb to 1.5 feet. Stems mostly decumbent, to 3.0 feet; leaves opposite, simple, mostly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, and usually obscurely toothed; heads usually solitary (sometimes 2 or 3) at the end of short axillary (sometimes terminal) peduncles. Flowers August-October.

Plant community type: Found primarily in mud of open marshy areas and beaver ponds, and around the edges of stock ponds, lakes, etc.

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Appendix C: Plants by Common Name
Appendix C: Plants by Scientific Name
Appendix C: Plants Listed by Family