Eclipta prostrata(L.) L.

False Daisy

WFO wfo-0000108811 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. a Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-14 / obs. 197947386
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Navapol Komanasin
fig. b Navapol Komanasin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198752256
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. c Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202880320
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. d 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201121246
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. e Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199507637
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Chet Burrier
fig. f Chet Burrier, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203925175
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by rebecca bachman
fig. g rebecca bachman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195551324
Eclipta prostrata, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. h Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195398742

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Flowering n = 2,658 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,658 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 113 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acmella lanceolata Link ex Spreng.
  • Amellus carolinianus Walter
  • Anthemis abyssinica J.Gay ex A.Rich.
  • Anthemis abyssinica var. abyssinica
  • Anthemis bornmuelleri var. brachyota (Eig) Feinbrun & Fertig
  • Anthemis bornmuelleri var. galilaea (Eig) Feinbrun & Fertig
  • Anthemis cotula Blanco
  • Anthemis cotula subsp. lithuanica (DC.) Tzvelev
  • Anthemis cotula var. hierosolymitana Eig
  • Anthemis cotula-foetida Crantz
  • Anthemis cotuloides Raf. ex DC.
  • Anthemis galilaea var. brachyota Eig
  • Anthemis galilaea var. hierosolymitana (Eig) Yavin
  • Anthemis sulphurea Wall. ex Nyman
  • Anthemis viridis Blanco
  • Artemisia viridis Blanco
  • Bellis racemosa Steud.
  • Bellis ramosa Jacq.
  • Buphthalmum diffusum Vahl ex DC.
  • Chamaemelum foetidum Garsault
  • Chamaemelum foetidum Baumg.
  • Cotula alba (L.) L.
  • Cotula alva (L.) L.
  • Cotula oederi Murray

and 89 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.