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Ornamental- used as an ornamental plant in gardens. Medicine-It is used against epilepsy and wounds, also used as an insect repellent. In China it is used to treat a variety of conditions, including common colds, headaches, boils, eczema, bleeding wounds, and burns.
Mexico
Thrives in valleys, forests, forest margins on slopes, riversides, grasslands, field margins, at an elevation up to 2000 m.
It is a common tropical annual herbaceous weed. It is an erect softly hairy annual plant grows up to a height of 76 cm.
Stem is often red and has long white hairs.
Leaves are oppositely arranged, ovate to lance-like, coarsely rounded, and have toothed margin.
Flowers are numerous, pale blue or whitish flower-heads, often forming dense domed to flat-topped clusters in leaf axils or end of branches.
Fruit is a small, single-seeded structure called an achene. Black, spindle-shaped (narrow at both ends, wider in the middle), surface dry and roughly hairy.
Flowering and Fruiting: year-round.