Spermacoce glabra

smooth false buttonweed, buttonplant, smooth buttonweed, buttonweed
Family

Rubiaceae

Leaf Arrangement

opposite

Leaf Attachment

petiolate

Leaf Margin

entire

Leaf Type

simple

Leaf Shape

oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate

Growth Form

forb

Flower Color

white

Flower Month

May - November

Height (meters)

0.1 - 0.6

Milky Sap

No

Armed/Unarmed

Unarmed

Origin

native

Lifespan

perennial


Wetland Class

FACW

Habitat

Alluvial woods, edges of pines, streams, and moist waste areas, swamps and wet ground, damp shores, low woodlands.