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Spreading hogweed |
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| Vernacular name | Bikshafra, Shanti | |
| Scientific name | Boerhavia diffusa Linn. | |
| Family | Nyctaginaceae | |
| Season | Rainy | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Difffused branching herb with elongated, fusiform, tuberose taproot. | |
| Leaves | Linear, ovate, oblong or rounded with acute or cordate base in unequel pairs, green, glossy above, silvery white beneath, branches often reddish coloured. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Corymbose umbels, very small, petals funnel shaped, dark pink or white. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Clavate, blunty five ribbed, very glandular. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Sandy tracts, fallow field. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October to January | |
| Associated with | Upland flora | |
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