Tridax procumbens L.

Family: Asteraceae

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae > Tridax > T. procumbens

Common name [English]: Coat Buttons

Vernacular name [Malayalam]: ഒടിയൻപച്ച

Nativity: Mexico to Tropical America

Habitat: Deciduous forests, also waste lands in the plains

Description: Procumbent herbs. Leaves 3-6 x 1.5-3 cm, ovate, apex acute, serrate, bulbous-based hairy; petiole 5-10 mm long. Heads 1.3 x 1.5 cm, solitary, on long peduncles; bracts in 3-series, lanceolate, hairy. Outer row of flowers ligulate, female, limb 3 x 2 mm, 3-toothed, white; inner flowers bisexual, tubular; corolla 6 mm long, 5-lobed at apex, yellow. Achenes 2 mm long, obovoid, densely hairy; pappus many, setaceous.

Flowering and Fruiting : Throughout the year

Uses : Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha

Cultivation: wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org