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  • COMMON NAME: False Daisy
  • ARABIC: سعده
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Eclipta prostrata (L.) L.
  • SYNONYMS: E. alba (L.) Hassk.
  • FAMILY: ASTERACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/eclipta_prostrata.htm
Annual herb, 20-50 cm high, erect, decumbent or prostrate, often rooting at the lower nodes. Stem and branches strigose, woth adpressed, white hairs. Leaves 1-5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, opposite, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subentire, densely adpressed, rough, hairy. Heads about 1 cm wide, peduncled from the leaf-axils, single or in pairs of unequal length, with white florets. Involucral bracts about 8, ovate, acute, thin, green-herbaceous. Corolla often white, 4-toothed. Achenes about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, compressed, with 3-4 marginal wings, tuberculate, with apex truncate, blackish, without pappus. Flowering mainly in summer.
Plantations and damp places.
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