Buttonweed

Buttonweed, Poorjoe

Diodia teres Walter

Rubiaceae (Madder Family)

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Povertyweed, Poorjoe, Dioidia, Rough Buttonweed:

summer annual in the Madder (Rubiaceae) Family with opposite, linear leaves
stems reddish, wiry
flowers small, white to pink, in leaf axils; fruit is a small, oval pod
found in cultivated fields, lawns, non-crop areas, roadsides, particularly dry, infertile and sandy soils