Summary ⁵

Soliva sessilis, one of up to nine species of the genus Soliva, is a low-growing herbaceous annual plant. Its common names include field burrweed, Onehunga-weed, lawn burrweed, lawnweed, and common soliva. It is one of several plants known as bindi weed, bindii, or bindi-eye.

Description ⁶

Plants (1–)2–5(–25+) cm (high or across), ± villous, glabrescent (not stoloniferous, stems purplish, prostrate to ascending, often rooting at nodes). Leaves basal and cauline; blades ± oblanceolate, 1–2(–3)+ cm, 2(–3)-pinnati-palmately lobed. Heads mostly scattered along stems. Involucres 2–4(–5) mm diam. Pistillate florets 5–8(–17+) in 1–2+ series. Disc florets 4–8+; corollas 1.5–2.5 mm. Cypselae: bodies ± obovate to lanceolate, (1.5–)2.5–3+ mm, usually winged (wings entire or ± sinuate to incised, each shoulder usually distally projecting as spinelike tooth), faces glabrous or ± scabrellous to hirtellous; pappi 0 (persistent stylar sheaths indurate, spinelike, 1–2+ mm, erect or slightly inflexed). 2n = ca. 92 (as S. pterosperma), 110+ (from Portugal), 118–120.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) 2002 Bart and Susan Eisenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=111167&one=T
2. (c) Harry Rose, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/macleaygrassman/15568046624/
3. (c) Harry Rose, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/macleaygrassman/15568046664/
4. (c) John Slaney, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/52748818@N07/10493377173/
5. Adapted by Amber Leung from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliva_sessilis
6. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5004460

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