-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)

-Scarlet Spiderling (Boerhavia coccinea)

Scarlet spiderling (Boerhavia coccinea) is an herbaceous perennial trailing plant that will grow to 91 cm long. Stems are fuzzy and foliage is sticky, forming large spreading mats along the ground. Blooms from spring to fall with small clusters of tiny, frilly pink flowers that grow on a round flower head. It attracts butterflies and caterpillars. In Mexico and South America (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay), B. coccinea is used in traditional medicine to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, headaches, fever, liver disease and syphilis, and as a diuretic.