Fabaceae FAMILY

Aeschynomene americana

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Aeschynomene americana is an erect or ascending, rarely almost prostrate plant, sometimes an annual but at others becoming a shrub-like plant that can live for 2 - 4 years. It can grow 50 - 200cm tall and 100 - 250cm wide, depending on ecotype[ 418 Title Ecocrop Publication Author Website http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available. ]. The plant is cultivated as a green manure crop, particularly for rice crops[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeS. America - Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyanas; through the Caribbean to Florida; C. America - Panama to Mexico.

HabitatFound mainly in wet or moist places at elevations up to 2,800 metres. It is particularly suited to wet, low-lying, sandy soils and to similarly located solodics of coastal lowland country[ 305 Title Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk Publication Author Website http://www.hear.org/pier/scientificnames/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A very good website detailing weed species that have been introduced into the Pacific Islands. ].