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Five Leaved Carpetweed, Mollugo |
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| Vernacular name | Jharasi | |
| Scientific name | Mollugo pentaphylla L., Mollugo stricta | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | An annual weed in cultivated areas. Stem, less than a foot tall, and branches are slender and hairless.. | |
| Leaves | The leaves are 1.5-3 cm in length, 3-5 mm in width, whorled or opposite, usually linear lancelike, and narrowed at both ends. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | The flowers are borne in compound cymes, with very slender and very short stalks. The sepals are 1.5-2 mm long. The capsule is as long as the sepals, and nearly spherical, | |
| Fruit/ seed | Seeds - dark chestnut, thin-walled, and covered with raised tubercular points. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Open grasslands, at low and medium altitudes | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September-October | |
| Associated with | Field crops, edge of forets | |
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