Asteraceae
Siegesbeckia orientalis
Sigesbeckia orientalis
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Sigesbeckia
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Common names
By language (11)
- Azerbaijani
- Şərq sigezbekiyası
- Chinese
- 豨莶, 豨薟, 希占草, 粘糊菜, 苦草, 虾柑草, 豨簽, 黏糊菜
- Dutch
- Siegesbeckia orientalis
- English
- Siegesbeckia orientalis, Common St. Paul's wort
- lzh
- 豨薟
- Malayalam
- കടംപൂ
- Persian
- علف مقدس
- Quechua
- Qalti, Siegesbeckia orientalis, Tuka-tukana
- Tongan
- Kakamika
- Vietnamese
- Hy thiêm
- Welsh
- Llysiau-pawl Asia
Synonyms
- Minyranthes heterophylla Turcz.
- Sigesbeckia brachiata Roxb.
- Sigesbeckia caspica Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Sigesbeckia gracilis DC.
- Sigesbeckia humilis Koidz.
- Sigesbeckia iberica Willd.
- Sigesbeckia orientalis f. angustifolia Makino
- Sigesbeckia orientalis f. orientalis
- Sigesbeckia orientalis subsp. caspica Kitam.
- Sigesbeckia orientalis subsp. orientalis
- Sigesbeckia orientalis var. angustifolia Makino
- Sigesbeckia orientalis var. orientalis
- Sigesbeckia orientalis var. tenggerensis Hochr.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Elouanne, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.