Gooseweed

(Sphenoclea zeylanica)

Characteristics

Leaves	Flowers

Growing habits: Erect annual or perennial herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous and fleshy roots, aerenchyma when growing in water

Leaf anatomy: Alternately arranged, variable in size, elliptic in shape, margins entire, base cuneate

Reproduction: Dense cylindrical terminal spike, corolla 5-lobed, petals yellowish to whitish

_{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}