Japanese name: コゴメギク（小米菊） Scientific name:Galinsoga parviflora
[Overview]
An annual growing up to 60 cm tall, found in fields and by roadsides.
The stem has a few short appressed hairs, and the internodes are somewhat longer than in Hakidame-giku.
The leaves are simple and opposite, ovate-lanceolate, with three conspicuous veins.
The leaf margins have low wavy teeth.
A single flower head about 5 mm across is borne at the tip of each branch.
The head usually has 5 white ray florets around the edge and many yellow tubular florets in the center.
The ray florets are small, about 1 mm long, and 3-lobed at the tip.
The involucre is hemispherical.
The fruit is an achene; the ray florets have no pappus, while the pappus of the tubular florets is split into tufts.
[History]
Reported in Kobe in the early Showa period, it has become naturalized throughout the country.
