Distribution: Sparingly introduced in Klickitat County.
Habitat: Waste places
Flowers: June-October
Origin: Introduced from Central and South America
Growth Duration: Annual
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps
Freely branched annual, 2-7 dm. tall, the stem with a few spreading hairs.
Leaves opposite, simple, somewhat toothed, ovate or lance-ovate, petiolate, 2-7 cm. long and 1-4 cm. wide.
Heads numerous in leafy cymes, the disk 3-6 mm. wide; rays few, white, short and broad, pistillate and fertile, with pappus scales usually wanting; pappus scales of disk flowers fringed and blunt; involucre bracts few and broad, joined at the base, each subtending a ray; receptacle conic, chaffy throughout.
Achenes 4-angled.
Publication: Icon. 3: 41, plate 281. 1795.
- var. parviflora – small flowered galinsoga, gallant soldier
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Galinsoga parviflora in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Galinsoga parviflora checklist entry
OregonFlora: Galinsoga parviflora information
E-Flora BC: Galinsoga parviflora atlas page
CalPhotos: Galinsoga parviflora photos
