Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Commelinales > Commelinaceae > Commelina > Commelina communisCommelina communis (Asiatic dayflower)Synonyms: Commelina communis f. alba; Commelina communis f. aureostriata; Commelina vulgaris Commelina communis, commonly known as the Asiatic dayflower, is an herbaceous annual plant in the dayflower family. It gets its name because the blooms last for only one day. It is native throughout much of East Asia and northern parts of Southeast Asia. In China, the plant is known as yazhicao (simplified Chinese: 鸭跖草; traditional Chinese: 鴨跖草; pinyin: yāzhīcǎo), roughly translating to "duckfoot herb", while in Japan it is known as tsuyukusa (露草 tsuyukusa), meaning "dew herb". It has also been introduced to parts of central and southeastern Europe and much of eastern North America, where it has spread to become a noxious weed. It is common in disturbed sites and in moist soil. The flowers emerge from summer through fall and are distinctive with two relatively large blue petals and one ver |
Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | Structure [2] | Herb | Usage [1] | A bright blue dye is obtained from the petals; | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Height [1] | 30 inches (0.75 m) | View Plants For A Future Record : Commelina communis |
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Allegheny Portage Railroad Nat'l Hist. Site National Historic Site |
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1152 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Assateague Island National Seashore |
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8621 |
Maryland, United States |
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Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area National Recreation Area |
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120283 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Blue Ridge Parkway National Parkway |
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73611 |
North Carolina, Virginia, United States |
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Bolshekhekhtsirsky Zapovednik |
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112282 |
Khabarovsk, Russia |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
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16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Carpathian Biosphere Reserve |
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144772 |
Ukraine |
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Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve |
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619089 |
Jilin, China |
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Chickamauga & Chattanooga Nat'l Military Park National Military Park |
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8248 |
Georgia, Tennessee, United States |
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Colonial National Historic Park National Historical Park |
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9316 |
Virginia, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Cumberland Gap National Hist. Park National Historical Park |
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24282 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, United States |
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Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge |
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Puerto Rico, United States |
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Fire Island National Seashore |
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9433 |
New York, United States |
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Fort Donelson National Battlefield |
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560 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument |
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4213 |
Georgia, United States |
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Friendship Hill National Historic Site |
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697 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Gateway National Recreation Area |
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1807 |
New Jersey, United States |
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George Washington Birthplace National Monument |
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435 |
Virginia, United States |
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Gettysburg National Military Park |
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3560 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
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515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge |
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3161 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site |
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861 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
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8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia |
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Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik |
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44224 |
Primorsky Krai , Russia |
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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve (Natn'l Park) National Park |
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51235 |
Kentucky, United States |
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Moores Creek National Battlefield |
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100 |
North Carolina, United States |
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New River Gorge National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
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55591 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Oconee National Forest Botanical Reserve |
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306 |
Georgia, United States |
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Okskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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Russia |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
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Czech Republic |
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Petersburg National Battlefield |
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3338 |
Virginia, United States |
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Point Pelee National Park |
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5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Richmond National Battlefield Park |
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1517 |
Virginia, United States |
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Rondeau Provincial Park |
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5035 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site |
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New York, United States |
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Saratoga National Historical Park |
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New York, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Tennessee River Gorge |
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Tennessee, United States |
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Upper Miss. River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge |
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25823 |
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States |
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Ussuriysky Zapovednik |
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99910 |
Primorsky Krai , Russia |
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Valley Forge National Historical Park |
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3509 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Western Michigan Universitys Asylum Lake Preserve |
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274 |
Michigan, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 5Kato, M., T. Makutani, T. Inoue, and T. Itino. 1990. Insect-flower relationship in the primary beech forest of Ashu, Kyoto: an overview of the flowering phenology and seasonal pattern of insect visits. Contr. Biol. Lab. Kyoto Univ. 27:309-375. ♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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