Shaggy soldier
கலின்சோகா குவாட்ரிரேடியாட்டா
Galinsoga quadriradiata Ruiz & Pav.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 52 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Peruvian daisy, Hairy galinsoga
Formerly Adventina ciliata, Ageratum perplexans, Baziasa urticifolia, Galinsoga allaeocarpa, and 18 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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 25 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Dutch
- Harig knopkruid, harig knopkruid
- root
- GALQUA, Umzize, Ndua ntuú
- Italian
- Galinsoga ispida
- French
- Galinsoge cilié, Galinsoge velu, galinsoga cilié
- German
- Bewimpertes Knopfkraut, Behaartes Franzosenkraut, Behaartes Knopfkraut
- Japanese
- ハキダメギク, 掃溜菊
- Spanish
- Guasca, Yerba pajarito
- Czech
- pěťour srstnatý
- Chinese
- 粗毛小米菊, 睫毛牛膝菊, 粗毛牛膝菊
- Danish
- Kirtel-kortstråle
- Russian
- Галинзога четырёхлучевая, Галинсога четырёхлучевая
- Norwegian Bokmål
- nesleskjelfrø, nesleskjellfrø
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Galinsoga quadriradiata (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.