A very variable, delicate, gregarious, erect annual, upto 60 cm high. Leaves alternate, sessile, embracing the stem, 3-12 cm long. Leaf segments irregularly serrate. Heads small, in panicles, dark purple. Achenes oblong, smooth.
Suberect herb, viscid and glandular, silky and hairy.
Stem branched grooved.
Basal leaves radical and cauline, sessile. Segments toothed.
Flower heads 0.3 to 0.6 cm across in terminal corymbose panicles; involucral bracts linear, acute, hairy on margins.
Achenes oblong. Whole plant is aromatic and is commonly observed as undergrowth in open spaces especially near wet surface; rice fields or on the banks of river streams.
Fl. & Fr. : Nov-march
Source: Foi, efoi, powo, ibp, iNat,
PC: Sonu Kumar

• Flower Color: Purple
• Habit: Herb ; Plant Height: 2 ft ; Habitat: Mesophyte ; Root: Tap root ; Leaf Type: Simple ; Leaf margins: Lobed ; Leaf Arrangement: Alternate ; Inflorescence Type: Capitulum ; Flower Color: Blue & Purple