Eclipta

(Eclipta prostrata)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect, spreading, or prostrate summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from shallow taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves oppositely arranged, simple, elliptic to lanceolate, petiole lacking and slightly thickened, midvein evident, margins serrate

Reproduction: Inflorescence 2 solitary heads, terminal head matures before elongated axillary head, perfect, rounded, many female ray florets, white petals; achene fruits

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}