 |
IGKV WEED SEARCHWeed Search Facility for students and scientists |
Cursed Thistle |
||
| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
|
| Vernacular name | Savi | |
| Scientific name | Circium arvense L. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | The leaves are very spiny, lobed, up to 15-20 cm long and 2-3 cm broad (smaller on the upper part of the flower stem). | Photo Gallery |
| Flower |   |
|
| Fruit/ seed | The seeds are 4-5 mm long, with a feathery pappus which assists in wind dispersal. The plant also spreads underground using rhizomes. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Dry land areas | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September - March | |
| Associated with | Dry land flora | |
| Habit | A herbaceous perennial plant growing 30-100 cm, forming extensive clonal colonies from an underground root system. Stems - green smooth and glabrous (having no Trichome or glaucousness), mostly without spiny wings. | |
| Inflorescence | The inflorescence is 10-22 mm diameter, pink-purple, with all the florets of similar form (no division into disc and ray florets). The flowers are usually dioecious, but not invariably so, with some plants bearing hermaphrodite flowers. | |
© All rights reserved by IGKV (Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya)
Idea, Concept and Content by - Adikant Pradhan