Asiatic Dayflower

The Asiatic dayflower is an herbaceous annual plant in the dayflower family. It gets its name because the blooms last for only one day.

Recent research has also revealed that the Asiatic dayflower can bioaccumulate a number of metals, making it a candidate for revegetating and essentially cleaning spoiled copper mines.

The flowers have also been used in Japan to produce a dye and a pigment that was used in many world-renowned Ukiyo-e woodcuts from the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the modern era the plant has found limited use as a model organism in the field of plant physiology due to its complex pigment chemistry and the ease of viewing its stomata.

Type

Flora

Scientific Name

Commelina communis

Location

The plant’s native distribution includes much of East Asia and Southeast Asia. The species has been introduced to much of Europe and eastern North America. 

Within its native distribution, the plant is most typical of moist, open places, including shady forest edges and wet areas of crop fields, orchards, ditches, and roadsides.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commelina_communis