Straggler daisy
Calyptocarpus vialis Less.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Asteraceae
Also called Creeping Cinderella weed, Prostrate lawnflower, Horseherb, Horse herb
Formerly Blainvillea tampicana, Calyptocarpus tampicanus, Oligogyne tampicana, Synedrella vialis, and 1 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. U.S.A. to Belize, Caribbean to VenezuelaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Austin Watershed Protection, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part, shade; Austin Watershed Protection full, part
- Height
- 20 cm to 25 cmRead from NC State Extension and Austin Watershed Protection, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 0.5–1 ft; Austin Watershed Protection 8–10 in
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Austin Watershed Protection, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 0.5–1 ft; Austin Watershed Protection 1–1 ft
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Austin Watershed Protection, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension medium; Austin Watershed Protection low
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, Austin Watershed Protection and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by all 3 sources
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Portuguese
- Erva-cinderella
- Chinese
- 金腰箭舅, 伏金腰箭
- Spanish
- Garañona, Manzanillo, destendida
- Japanese
- ツルセンダングサ
- Chinese (China)
- 伏金腰箭, 金腰箭舅
- French
- Herbe de Cendrillon rampante
- Ukrainian
- Каліптокарп придорожний
- Simplified Chinese
- 伏金腰箭, 金腰箭舅
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Austin Watershed Protection, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- 3D model: Calyptocarpus vialis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.