Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Blainvillea acmella
botoncillo, clavel de pozo, monte negro, eclipta, false daisy, yerba de tago
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Blainvillea
Species
acmella
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Eclipta prostrata Lour
Origin: Native
- Itow, S. (1997) List of Plant Specimens collected in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Bulletin of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Nagasaki University, Natural Science, 38 (1): 53-144.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Blainvillea acmella", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18555. Accessed 10 May 2026.