Common Quickweed

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Scientific Name:   Galinsoga quadriradiata


Spreads quickly, producing an abundance of seeds that mature almost immediately. Native to South America. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Common Quickweed

Genus species: Galinsoga quadriradiata
Common Name: Common Quickweed
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:White
Identified by:A. Swanson
Months in Bloom  
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