Annual 3-5 dm, with ovate or lance-ovate lvs tapering to the base and with long spikes of small white fls; fruiting cal 7-9 mm; 2n=48. Native of trop. Asia and Afr., established as a weed in trop. Amer., and occasionally escaped in our range.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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