Kromme-Geelhout-Database
Species details
Genus
Genus : Cotula
Family: Asteraceae (Dicotyledon)
Taxon : Flowering plant
Group : Plant
SPECIES
nigellifoliaNOTES
A straggling to decumbent, glabrescent perennial to 30 cm. It roots at the lower nodes. Leaves irregularly bipinnate with linear lobes. An indigenous weed.
AUTHORITY
(DC.) K.Bremmer & HumphriesSub Author
Conservation
UncommonHabit
HerbaceousLand Invertebrate
n/aColour
- Notes: Yellow flowers with white or yellow rays. Flower heads globose and shortly radiate solitary in the upper axils
- Colour: Yellow
Common Name
- Staggerweed
- Bovine staggers plant
- Rivierals
- Stootsiektebossie
- Waterkerwel
- Kerwel
- Bovine staggers plant
Habitat
- NOTES: Thus far only recorded from the river bank at the Old Man's Pool
- HABITAT NAME: Riverside
Uses
- Skin treatments
- Used for skin problems and rashes
- Wound treatments
- Leaves ground to a paste are used on wounds
- Respiratory treatments
- Sap is taken orally for a wheezy chest
- Fever treatments
- Unspecified use
- Toxicity
- Known to contain toxic principles
Months
- October
- November
- December
- January
- February
- March
- April
- November
Synonyms for Species
- Matricaria nigellifolia
- Sphaeroclinium nigellifolium
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