2024 Edition • Get the App • Cite this Page
X

Colors

Data mode

Account

Login
Sign up

Collapse this

Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
  • Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
  • 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
  • Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
  • iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
Write-in vote: vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
Donate $15 per month
(0.2¢/heliophily index)
Donate $30 per month
(0.4¢/heliophily index)
Donate $50 per month
(amazing!)
Donate another
or one-time amount
Copy permalink to share

Phyla nodiflora (Linnaeus) Greene. Creeping Frogfruit, Capeweed, Turkey-tangle, Matgrass. Phen: May-Nov. Hab: Interdune swales, shell middens, sandy soils of roadsides, lawns, ditches, impoundments, disturbed areas. Dist: Pantropical, in North America from se. VA south to s. FL and west to CA, north in the interior to AR, se. MO, and southward into the tropics.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Other Comments: This species is very weedy, and is a familiar component of road margins and lawns in the southeastern Coastal Plain.

Synonymy ⓘ: = K4; = Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene var. nodiflora – Bah, GrPl, O'Leary & Múlgura (2012); < Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx. – F, RAB; > Phyla incisa Small – Tx; < Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene – Ar, C, Fl6, G, GW2, K1, Meso4.2, Mex, NcTx, S, Va, WH3; > Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene – Tx; < Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene var. nodiflora – K3

Show in key(s)

Show parent genus

Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
  • Great Plains: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 9

Your browser does not support SVGs

Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend.

image of plant© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Aidan Campos source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Aidan Campos source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Original Image ⭷

Feedback

See something wrong or missing on about Phyla nodiflora? Let us know here: (Please include your name and email if at all complicated so we can clarify if needed.) We greatly appreciate feedback, and will include updates from you in our next webapp update, which can take a few months.