This species has an abundant population and wide distribution. It faces no major widespread threats and populations are stable. Listed as Least Concern.

This is a cosmopolitan weed present in Tropical Africa and America. A pantropical species which is known in the whole tropical Africa countries and South Africa.

Widespread in western Africa, but mainly in the lowlands. Recorded from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape). In Eastern Africa it is present in Burundi, where the species has been found in the medium altitude of the country. It has been met in Mahwa marshes, Gitanga peatland and all the stream of the Ruvubu basin. Its extent of occurrence is more than 10000 Km2 and less than 20000 Km2. In Malawi known from Lake Chilwa Island south shore, Lake Chilwa plains, Zomba at Chancellor College, Mangochi at Kamuzu Bridge and Pwepwe Fisheries, Chipoka in Salima, Cape Maclear, Monkey Bay Hills, Elephant Marsh, and Chiuta Island.

Quite widespread herbaceous species, therefore, important population.

Annual common tropical weed especially of damp places (sandy river borders) in savanna, as well as in forest up to 2,000 m above sea level. It is not confined to wetlands but often occurs in and along the edges of pools, streams, rivers and ditches or in temporary flooded places, sometimes found in floating mats of vegetation. The plant is to some extent an anthropogene occurring frequently around houses, open spaces in towns and villages and on river-bank clearings, a weed of cultivation and in disturbed ground, along roadsides and railway lines.

Wide spread with no major threats.

Occurs in many protected areas, but no conservation measures are required for this weedy species.