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The Asiatic dayflower is considered an invasive weed in many areas where it has been introduced. In the United States, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, for example, categorises the species as "occasionally invasive" in its Invasive Plant Species of Virginia. This means that the plant will "not affect ecosystem processes ...
Murdannia keisak is an introduced species in the United States. First records in Louisiana and South Carolina date from the 1920s and 1930s. It is most likely that Murdannia keisak accompanied rice imported for agriculture. Evidence also suggests that the plant was present decades before its first collection.
The Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) is probably the best known species in the West. It is a common weed in parts of Europe and throughout eastern North America. [2] Several species, such as Commelina benghalensis, are eaten as a leaf vegetable in Southeast Asia and Africa. [5]
Commelina benghalensis, commonly known as the Benghal dayflower, tropical spiderwort, or wandering Jew, [6] kanshira in Bengali, is a perennial herb native to tropical Asia and Africa. It has been widely introduced to areas outside its native range, including to the neotropics , Hawaii, the West Indies and to both coasts of North America.
Commelina diffusa, sometimes known as the climbing dayflower or spreading dayflower, is a pantropical herbaceous plant in the dayflower family.It has been introduced to the southeastern United States where it is most common in wet disturbed soils.
Healing the ecosystem so the otters could come back had the win-win effect of helping manage an invasive species. "The sea otters, they're like an assistant manager for us," she said. The pattern ...
The five species are being renamed as followed, according to the Michigan Invasive Species Program: Calligraphy sedge will replace Asiatic sand sedge as the common name for Carex kobomugi, a ...
The genus name Commelina was chosen based on the Asiatic dayflower. Linnaeus picked the name in honour of the Dutch botanists Jan and Caspar Commelijn, using the two large showy petals of Commelina communis to symbolise them. [5] [failed verification] The specific name is the Latin adjective cyaneus, meaning "blue".