Summary ²

Spermacoce remota, the woodland false buttonweed, is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States (Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama), West Indies (Bermuda, Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad, Lesser Antilles, etc), Mexico, Central America and South America. It is naturalized in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia), China (Guangdong, Taiwan), India, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Mauritius and many other oceanic islands (including Hawaii and the Galápagos).

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Andreas Kay, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaskay/7229719062/
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermacoce_assurgens

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

iNat Map