Stats

Lifespan

Annual

Size

Medium

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Tropical grassland

Range

The Americas

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Seeds

Defense

Toxins

Status

Common

About

This flowering herb thrives in tropical fields and spreads across global lands. A single plant produces up to 25,000 seeds that can remain dormant in soil for several years.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Parthenium

Species

Parthenium hysterophorus