Appearance
This plant has numerous white to creamy-yellow flowers, and the flower stalks can be 30 centimetres in height.Fruits and reproduction: The stems creep and root at the nodes; the plant spreads by rhizomes. Dollar Weed produces a dry dehiscent fruit that, at maturity, splits into two or more parts each with a single seed.
Habitat: This plant lives in sandy areas of somewhat extreme conditions: very dry lands that are flooded sometimes.
Distribution
This species colonizes sandy ground and disturbed foreshore sites, estuaries, coastline, sand dunes and ponds. ''H. bonariensis'' has also displayed a tendency to prefer, and be stronger at, higher elevations.;Native
⟶ Afrotropic:
─⟶ West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
─⟶ West Tropical Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal
─⟶ South Tropical Africa: Angola, Mozambique
─⟶ Southern Africa: South Africa
─⟶ Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion
⟶ Nearctic:
─⟶ Southeastern United States: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
─⟶ South-Central United States: Texas
⟶ Neotropic:
─⟶ Central America: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama
─⟶ Caribbean: Cuba, Puerto Rico
─⟶ Northern South America: Venezuela
─⟶ Brazil: Brazil
─⟶ Western South America: Bolivia, Colombia, Peru
─⟶ Southern South America: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
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