Africa, Asia and Australia._x000D_ TN: All plain districts._x000D_ GoM: Frequent on mainland coast. Rare on Muyal Islands. Wet fallow fields.

Balagaht, Bastar, Bilaspur, Chhatarpur, Durg, Hoshangabad, Mandla, Morena, Panna, Raigarh, Raipur, rajnandgaon, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Surguja, Tikamgarh in moist shady places

Bankura(WB): Gelia. A weed of wet places, rice fields and gardens. Very common. Fl-Fr: July-Dec.

Global: Tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia, Polynesia, tropical Africa and America. Chamba: Common in moist places, 600-1600 m.

INDIA: Throughout India; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Chamba.

Maharashtra: Common in cultivated fields and waste lands.

Majuli: Deuri gaon. Frequent to common in moist and shady places and infrequently met in cultivated fields.

Srikakulam (AP): Burnakonda, Jamparakota, Chinagora, Kothavalasa, near Palakonda, Tidddimi Chintapalli, Bondiguda, Baleru, Koringabadra, Kollivalasa, Narasingipalli Beat. Common in the wet places or in rice fields.

Throughout (except Kutch), among grasses, in cultivated fields and undergrowth of forests; common.

Throughout India, up to 1600 m in the Himalaya. Throughout tropical and subtropical Asia from India eastwards, Australia and Polynesia; also in tropical Africa and America. Orissa: Fairly common in moist places, common weed in cultivated land.