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Goat weed, Tropic ageratum |
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| Vernacular name | Gundheli, Mahjua | |
| Scientific name | Ageratum conyzoides L. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Erect annual herb, stem often documbent, hairs on the nodes and young parts. | |
| Leaves | Broadly ovate to triangular, subcordate, rounded or truncate at base, serrate, thiny long hairy | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Heads white or violet in corymbs, 50 80 flowered or thiny hairy 0.2 cm long. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Achene oblong, ribbed or angled with pappus of 5, rarely 6 rough bristles, achene black, bristles white to cream coloured | |
| Habitat and distribution | Roadsides, wasteland, dryland | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to March | |
| Associated with | Kharif upland flora | |
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