Centratherum punctatum Cassini

   Centratherum punctatum Cassini

Family : Asteraceae

Botanical Name : Centratherum punctatum Cass. subsp. punctatum

Common name : Brazilian button Flower

Stems erect, 10-70 cm tall.

Altitudinal range from 400-740 m. Found on the edges of vine forest and rainforest and in some drier types of open forest and woodland and roadsides.

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DAISY FLEABANE (Erigeron bellidioides )

Flowers of Himalaya

DAISY FLEABANE 

Botanical name: Erigeron bellidioides 

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Synonyms: Aster bellidioides

Daisy Fleabane are carpeting plants which spontaneously bloom in hill-stations, on the ground with wild grass, peering from wall cervices, and almost any place available. This evergreen perennial with green foliage, produces an abundance of yellow centered, small daisy-like flowerheads in summer. The outer petals are initially white, maturing to pink. Native to the Indian Subcontinent: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan.

Blue billy Goat weed, Ageratum Flowers(Ageratum conyzoides)

Flowers of Himalaya

Blue billy Goat weed

Botanical name: Ageratum conyzoides 

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Medicinal

Antibacterial – Leaf – wound healing

Insecticidal – (leaf oil) against weevils.

Goat weed is a common tropical annual herbaceous weed. It is an erect softly hairy annual plant which grows up to a height of 2.5 feet. Oppositely arranged leaves are ovate to lance-like, coarsely rounded, and have toothed margin. Numerous pale blue or whitish flowerheads are 6 mm across, often forming dense domed to flat-topped clusters in leaf axils or end of branches. Flowers most of the year. The stem is often red and has long white hairs. The weak aromatic unpleasant smelling leaves are also covered with fine hair. The dark seeds have scales and ends in a needle-like shape. In alternative medicine, ageratum is used against epilepsy and wounds, also used as an insect repellent.

Pic:Uttarakhand, INDIA

Himalayan Fleabane (Erigeron multiradiatus)

Flowers of Himalaya

Himalayan Fleabane (Erigeron multiradiatus)

Botanical name: Erigeron multiradiatus 

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Erigeron is a genus of about 200 species - The most widely used common name, fleabane, is shared with related plants in several other genera. Himalayan fleabane is a beautiful perennial with erect hairy stem upto 12-30 cm, and aster-like flowers. Leaves can be inversely ovate or lance-like, pointed or blunt, entire or coarsely toothed. Flower-heads vary in size 1.5-5 cm across, solitary or clustered, long stalked. "Petals" or ray florets are dark purple, long thread like, spreading. The central disk is yellow.

Pic: Uttarakhand, INDIA (September 15) 2009