Request for identification
Date/Time-Sep 2011
Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-Pune
Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-wild
Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- plant
Height/Length-1.5 ft
Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size-green
Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- light purple buds white flowers
Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- ?brown seeds
Other Information it looks like cotton I do not know how to describe this correclly
Regards
Bhagyashri
Does Vernonia menthaefolia have light purple flowers? I am not finding any referenceRegardsBhagyashri
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Madhuri Raut <iti...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Hari laji . Can it be Vernonia menthaefolia (Poepp. ex Spreng.) Less.?RegardsBhagyashri
Vernonia cinerea
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Botanical Name: Vernonia cinerea Description of Vernonia cinerea: Principal Constituents: |
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Vernonia cinerea.
Synonym: Cyanthillium cinereum.
Common names: Ash Fleabane, Small Ironweed.
Common Hindi names: Sahadevi, Daudotpala.
Plant: 15-75cm. Erect branching annual herb. One
of the commonest plants, seen in every possible niche from roof tops by the sea
up to the Himalaya(1,800m). Often variable in
appearance.
Leaves: 1-5cm (rarely to 7-8cm) long. ovate acute,
or variably shaped.
Flower: 4mm across.
Presumably indigenous in southeastern Asia and
Malesia, now adventive in most southern Pacific archipelagoes and elsewhere in
the tropics, including Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and America.
Leaves, roots and seeds are used in traditional
medicine.
The Vernonia cinerea - a widespread weed, in waste places and gardens.
Grows
not more than 1 metre tall, usually 0.5 meters. Purple flowering heads, called
"cupid's shaving brush", sometimes pinkish, small 6 -7 mm.
Leave your lawn unmowed for a month and the
Vernonia cinerea will be the first to sprout to prominence .
Used in traditional medicine in most cultures. In
Tamil medicine, its juice is used mainly as a vehicle for other compositions,
besides being a lone prescription.
The ripe seeds, with 'feathers' waiting for a wind
to blow them to your grass patch.
Vernonia cinerea, sometimes called the "small ironweed", is an erect annual herb, 8-1.60 cm tall. Stem ribbed, sparingly branched, finely pubescent, glandular. Leaves alternate, lower leaves narrowed into petiole, very variable as to shape, obovate, oval, ovate, rhomboid-oval, narrowly oblong, lanceolate or linear, all leaves subentire or repandate-dentate, herbaceous, gland-dotted beneath, on both surfaces finely pubescent, 1-8½ cm (1/2-3 cm long petiole disregarded) by ½-3 ½ cm; uppermost ones minute.
The inflorescence terminal, purple or violet sometimes pink, heads 20-25-flowered, 6-7 mm long, rather numerous, in corymbs, on filiform, 2-14 mm long peduncles; involucral bracts very acutely acuminate;; involucre 4-seriate, 4-5 mm long, bracts pubescent, often tinged with purple, narrowly pellucid-margined, lanceolate, 1-nerved, glandular. Achenes with 4-5 ribs, rather densely white-apressed-hairy, 1 ½-2 mm long; inner-pappus hairs 4-5 mm long; outer ones very short. Its seeds (achenes) are wind-dispersed.
The small iron weed presumably originated from the Malesian region of Southeast Asia but is now a weed in Oceana, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and the Americas typically found naturalized in urban areas and relatively dry, disturbed sites,
Regards
Bhagyashri