Tridax

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Tridax in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tridax (an old Greek name used by Dioscorides, meaning summer eating, alluding to a plant that was a summer vegetable). Compositae. Hardy perennial herbs, possessing little beauty. Plants branched, hirsute or glabrescent: lvs. opposite, incise-dentate or pinnately cut, segms. few and narrow: heads medium-sized, long-peduncled, heterogamous: ray-fls. yellow, male disk-fls. greenish, fertile; involucre ovoid, campanulate or rather hemispherical; bracts few-rowed, slightly unequal: achenes turbinate.—About 27 species, Trop. Amer.; one species also occurs in India and Mauritius. Two species have been cult. occasionally. T. coronopifolia, Hemsl. About 1 ft. high: lvs. variously pinnatifid or trifid, lobes linear: fls. yellow, rays 5-lobed. Mex. T. trilobata, Hemsl. (Galinsoga trilobata, Cav.). About 1 ft. high: lvs. 3-lobed or pinnately incised: fls. yellow; rays 5-toothed. Mex. T. gaillardioides. Hook. & Arn.-Layia gaillardioides. F.S.R, 2:72. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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