false buttonweed

English

This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!

Etymology

From resemblance to buttonweeds (Diodia).

Pronunciation

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

false buttonweed (countable and uncountable, plural false buttonweeds)

1. Any plant of species in genus Spermacoce.

Derived terms

• baldhead false buttonweed (Spermacoce capitata)
• bouquet false buttonweed (Spermacoce densiflora)
• broadleaf false buttonweed (Spermacoce ovalifolia)
• Everglades Key false buttonweed (Spermacoce terminalis)|
• Florida false buttonweed (Spermacoce floridana)
• oval-leaf false buttonweed (Spermacoce latifolia)
• Pacific false buttonweed (Spermacoce exilis)
• pineland false buttonweed (Spermacoce tetraquetra)
• prostrate false buttonweed (Spermacoce prostrata)
• river false buttonweed (Spermacoce confusa)
• shrubby false buttonweed (Spermacoce verticillata)
• slender false buttonweed (Spermacoce tenuior)
• smooth false buttonweed (Spermacoce glabra)
• West Indian false buttonweed (Spermacoce sintenisii)
• whorled-leaf false buttonweed (Spermacoce eryngioides)
• winged false buttonweed (Spermacoce alata)
• woodland false buttonweed (Spermacoce assurgens)