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Fatoua villosa
About
Fatoua villosa is an annual herb in the Moraceae (mulberry) family. Common names include mulberry weed, crabweed, or hairy crabweed in English, kuwakusa in Japanese, and shuǐ shémá (水蛇麻) or xiǎo shémá (小蛇麻) in Mandarin. It is native to Eastern Asia, some Pacific islands, and parts of Australia, including in two Australian states, the Bismarck Archipelago, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It has become an invasive species in the United States where it grows in disturbed areas such as flowerbeds, greenhouses, and agricultural fields.
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Fatoua villosa
- Slug
- fatoua-villosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Fatoua
- Species
- villosa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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