Dichrocephala integrifolia

Dichrocephala integrifolia is a small annual herb of the daisy family (Asteraceae) with a broad palaeotropical distribution across tropical and subtropical Africa, the Indian subcontinent, China, Southeast Asia and into the western Pacific. It is a soft, erect or spreading plant usually 15-60 cm tall, with thin, branching, finely hairy stems. The leaves are alternate, often lyre-shaped or pinnately lobed with a large terminal lobe and toothed margins, becoming smaller and less divided upward. The tiny greenish to whitish flower heads are nearly globular and grouped into loose, branched terminal clusters; each head contains many minute female florets around a few central bisexual florets, giving the genus its name ("two-coloured head"). Flowering occurs over a long season. The fruits are small, flattened achenes lacking a conspicuous pappus. The plant is a common weed of moist, disturbed and shaded ground, growing on roadsides, field edges, gardens, streambanks, forest clearings and waste places from the lowlands into the mountains.