Spermacoce remota

#227 They called me Spermacoce remota, also known as Spermacoce chapmanii, and Spermacoce tenuior var. commersonii. I pay homage to the male botanists Commerson (I couldn’t find his records), and Alvan Wentworth Chapman, or Alexander Robert Chapman. They first catalogued me in 1792.

Native to Alabama, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..