-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies (Order Caryophyllales)

-Four o'Clock Family (Family Nyctaginaceae)

-Spiderlings (Genus Boerhavia)

-Erect Spiderling (Boerhavia erecta)

"Boerhavia erecta", commonly known as the erect spiderling or the erect boerhavia, is one of more than 100 species in the genus "Boerhavia". "Boerhavia erecta" is native to the United States, Mexico, Central America and western South America. A small weed of beaches, open thickets, fields, roadsides, and wastelands.