Native records: 39 botanical areas
Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, 36 more areas
See all areasDistribution is shown as WGSRPD Level 3 areas. It does not imply the species occurs throughout an entire area.
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An annual / biennial of wet tropical climates. Native to United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Colombia, Honduras and elsewhere.
This entry carries only the classification and distribution data recorded in WCVP. A written account is not yet available.
American Samoa
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Burundi
Cameroon
Cayman Islands
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Fiji
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Greece
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Jamaica
Japan
Kiribati
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Liberia
Macao
Malaysia
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Montenegro
Montserrat
Myanmar
Nauru
New Caledonia
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Réunion
Rwanda
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (French part)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Taiwan, Province of China
Tanzania, United Republic of
Timor-Leste
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
United Arab Emirates
United States Minor Outlying Islands
United States of America
Vanuatu
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Viet Nam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Wallis and Futuna
The Köppen climate classes found in the areas this plant is recorded as native to. It does not mean an entire area has that climate.
The same climate occurs in 278 areas worldwide, 158 of which have no record of this plant. See them on the map
A matching climate does not mean the plant can grow there. Range limits are also set by things other than climate — dispersal history, soils, competition. Source: Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0 (observed period 1991–2020).
The cited source records medicinal use of this plant. It is not an assessment of efficacy or safety.
Pilea microphylla is recorded as used medicinally.
Source location: p.609, left column, line 29
World Checklist of Useful Plant Species · Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) · CC BY 4.0 · source version: wcups-2020-62602715
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