Habitat - Moist ground in waste places, lawns, disturbed sites, roadsides, railroads.

Origin - Native to Asia.

Other info. - The genus name is in commemoration of two Dutch botanists, Jan and Kaspar Commelin, who had a brother who died at an early age and contributed nothing to botany. The three petals of the flower represent these three brothers.

 

 

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