Asteraceae
Coastal plain creepingoxeye
Wedelia fruticosa
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Wedelia
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Coastal plain creepingoxeye
Synonyms
- Anomostephium buphthalmoides DC.
- Buphthalmum asperrimum Spreng.
- Stemmodontia calycina O.E.Schulz
- Stemmodontia caracasana (DC.) J.R.Johnst.
- Wedelia calycina Rich.
- Wedelia calycina var. calycina
- Wedelia caracasana DC.
- Wedelia frutescens Jacq.
- Wedelia jacquinii Rich.
- Wedelia jacquinii subsp. calycina (Rich.) Stehlé
- Wedelia jacquinii subsp. caracasana (DC.) Stehlé
- Wedelia pulchella Kunth
- Wedelia scaberrima Benth.
- Zexmenia caracasana (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced, Puerto Rico: native, U.S. Virgin Islands: native
Photos

Photo: Patrice78500, 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.