🌿 Weed
ANX-WEED-0000259
Famine Weed
Parthenium hysterophorus
Famine Weed (Parthenium hysterophorus), an annual broadleaf weed of the Asteraceae family.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Growth habit
- Broadleaf
- Life cycle
- Annual
- Invasive status
- Highly invasive, noxious in many countries - a top invasive-species priority in East Africa
- Native region
- Tropical Americas, now a major invasive across Africa, Asia, and Australia.
- Reproduction
- Seed - a single plant can produce 10,000-25,000 seeds, several times per year in favourable climates.
Environment
Habitat & Growing Conditions
- Habitat
- Cultivated fields, pastures, roadsides, disturbed ground.
- Climate requirements
- Tropical to subtropical; spreads rapidly in warm, disturbed environments.
- Soil types
- Tolerates poor, disturbed soils and establishes quickly on bare ground.