Galinsoga is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1794. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 110, plate 24Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1798. Systema vegetabilium florae Peruvianae et Chilensis :characteres prodromi genericos differentias 197-199 in Latin It is native to North and South America and the West Indies, and naturalized in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.Flora of North America, Quickweed, Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavón, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110, plate 24. 1794. Flora of China, Vol. 20-21 Page 864 牛膝菊属 niu xi ju shu Galinsoga Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 110. 1794.
The name Galinsoga was dedicated to Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga, who founded the Spanish Real Academia Nacional de Medicina and was director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid. Martinez de Galinsoga, Genealoga Familia Pérez Martinez
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External links United States Department of Agriculture plants profile