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Lady’s thumb, smart weed |
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| Halbi Name |
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| Vernacular name | Bonjhaluk | |
| Scientific name | Polygonum pesicasia L. | |
| Family | Poaceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | One metretall plant, glabrous, branching at base, erect, herbaceous, from taproot, typically reddish at nodes. | |
| Leaves | Alternate, lanceolate to linear lanceolate, short petiople. Ocrea appressed, pubscent, fringed with cilia. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Terminal and axillary racemes, dense, perianth pink to rose or typically whitish at anthesis. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Achenes typically 2-sided, black, shiny | |
| Habitat and distribution | Moist place and plain areas. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | May to October | |
| Associated with | Moist place flora | |
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