Ageratum conyzoides L.

Family: Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae > Ageratum > A. conyzoides

Common name [English]: Goat Weed, White weed

Vernacular name [Malayalam]: അപ്പ, മുറിയൻപച്ച

Nativity: Mexico

Habitat: Weed in fallow fields and wastelands in the High Ranges.

Description: Herbs, viscid hairy. Leaves ovate, apex acute, crenate, base rounded; petiole 1-3 cm long. Heads white, in terminal corymbose panicle; bracts 1-3-seriate, elliptic, toothed at apex, 3-ribbed. Flowers all similar, bisexual; corolla tubular, white, glabrous, 5-lobed at apex; stamens 5, anthers linear. Achenes linear, 5-angled, hirsute along the angles; pappus many, setaceous.

Flowering and Fruiting: August - December

Uses: Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha, Traditional Chinese medicine

Cultivation: Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org