Cyathula prostrata, the prostrate pastureweed,[2] is a perennial, prostrate, herbaceous plant distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical world.

[3] Source: [5] Source: [6] Bolivia, Caroline Is., Cook Is., French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Marquesas, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Seychelles, Society Is., Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

The plant is locally used as a medicine but also as a food and source of soap.

[8] It is also recorded as a larval host plant of Fulvous Pied Flat butterfly.

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