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Ash-coloured fleabane, purple bane |
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| Vernacular name | Sahadevi, Sadodi | |
| Scientific name | Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Rabi,Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Erect, annual herb, 15 -75 cm height, stem stiff, striate, pubescent. | |
| Leaves | Simple, alternate, variable in shpe, broadly elliptic or lanceolate, irregularly toothed or crenate-serrate. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Pinkish violet, heads small, about 20 flowered in divaricate terminal caryombs. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Achene, oblong, clothed with white hairs. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Roadsides, forest, garden | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to May | |
| Associated with | Road side flora | |
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