Description: Creeping dayflower is a trailing or creeping herb. Leaves are 2-6 x 0.8-2 cm, lanceshaped or oblong-lanceshaped, base blunt, tip pointed or tapering; sheath 1-2 cm long, fringed with hairs. Flower-cluster-stalks are 0.8-1.5 cm long, ovate-lanceshaped, base subheart-shaped, complicate. Sepals about 3 mm long. Petals are blue, about 4 mm long. Stamens and staminodes are naked. Capsules are up to 8 mm long, oblong, 3-celled, tip beaked. Seeds about 2 mm, tuberculate and netveined. Creeping Dayflower is distributed in the pantropics 

Uses: In Peninsular Malaysia, the leaves are widely used for poulticing sores.

In Indonesia, the crushed leaves and stems are used for irregular menstruation.Dirty wounds are poultice with the mucilage from the stems.

The leaves are edible and may be used as a vegetable.

In some areas, leaves used as an ointment and absorptive.

Leaves are used as an abortifacient, also used against infected wounds.

Very variable as to pubescence, In West Java there is a form with densely, shaggy bracts and hair under the leaf surface