Wildflower (forb) · Asteraceae
False daisy
Eclipta prostrata
False daisy is recorded as native to 35 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,036 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
False daisy at a glance
- Native in
- 1,036 counties, across 35 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 10b PLANTS minimum temperature 32°F
- Mature height
- 3.2 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Sun to part shade Medium water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 10b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of 32°F; zone 10b winters bottom out at 35°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
False daisy is recorded as native to 35 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,036 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 1,036 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alabama 17 counties
- Arizona 8 counties
- Arkansas 47 counties
- California 23 counties
- Delaware 2 counties
- District of Columbia 1 county
- Florida 56 counties
- Georgia 18 counties
- Illinois 83 counties
- Indiana 56 counties
- Iowa 6 counties
- Kansas 66 counties
- Kentucky 54 counties
- Louisiana 63 counties
- Maryland 1 county
- Massachusetts 3 counties
- Michigan 2 counties
- Minnesota 1 county
- Mississippi 4 counties
- Missouri 88 counties
- Nebraska 20 counties
- New Jersey 15 counties
- New Mexico 4 counties
- New York 8 counties
- North Carolina 59 counties
- Ohio 48 counties
- Oklahoma 24 counties
- Pennsylvania 20 counties
- South Carolina 29 counties
- South Dakota 1 county
- Tennessee 43 counties
- Texas 71 counties
- Virginia 77 counties
- West Virginia 14 counties
- Wisconsin 4 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Perennial
- Mature height
- 3.2 ft
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Shape
- Erect
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Active growth period
- Summer
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Intermediate (sun to part shade)
- Moisture use
- Medium water use
- Drought tolerance
- Low
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- High
- Precipitation range
- 35 to 50 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Coarse, medium and fine
- pH range
- 5.2 to 7.9
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Low
- Salinity tolerance
- Low
- Fertility requirement
- Low
- Minimum root depth
- 14 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- 32°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 10b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 120
- Fire tolerance
- None
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- White
- Showy flowers
- No
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- No
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Not recorded
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- No Known Source
- Family
- Asteraceae
- PLANTS symbol
- ECPR
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Eclipta prostrata (PLANTS symbol ECPR).
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources