*Lagascea mollis Cavanilles. Common name: Silkleaf. Habitat: Disturbed areas (on ballast), not recently collected. Distribution: Native of Mexico (but now pantropical). Collected at Apalachicola, Franklin County, FL by A.W. Chapman in the 1850s, and previously also in FL by Ferdinand Rugel.
Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics
Synonymy ⓘ: = Fl7, FNA21, K4, WH3, Stuessy (1978). Basionym: Lagascea mollis Cav. 1803
Links to other floras: = Lagascea mollis - FNA21
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