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Silk Leaf, Acuate, American softhead |
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| Vernacular name | Mkhamali patti | |
| Scientific name | Lagascea mollis | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | An annual herb, slender, stem-pale, terete, pubscent, surface covered eith white cottony growth.50-100 cm tall. | |
| Leaves | Alternate, simple, ovate leaves with toothed margin, are 3-5 cm long. The leaves are silky beneath. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Tiny white-cream colored flowers, with 5 petals, occur in a composite head 2-3 cm across. The heads are surrounded by silky a leaf, which probably lends it one of its common names. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Heads silky villous, leaf-balls, solitary terminal. Achene cureate, angled, sometime dorsally compressed, glabrous, black, pappus a short fimbriate cup. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Off side the crop fields | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August-March. | |
| Associated with | Upland flora | |
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