Japanese name: アメリカタカサブロウ Scientific name:Eclipta alba
[Overview]
An annual 10–60 cm tall, found in fields, roadsides, and the banks between rice paddies.
The lower part of the stem creeps slightly.
The leaves are simple and opposite, lanceolate, 4–15 cm long and 0.5–2 cm wide, with serrated margins.
The flower heads are borne in the leaf axils and at the stem tips; white ray florets are arranged in about two rows around the edge, and the central tubular florets are also white.
The fruit is an achene, without wings on the edge but uneven, with wart-like projections over the entire side.
[History]
It was reported based on a specimen collected in Kobe in 1948.
