• Family : Asteraceae
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
• Basionym : Aster annuus L.
• Synonym(s) : Aster stenactis E.H.L.Krause; Cineraria corymbosa Moench; Diplopappus annuus Bluff & Fingerh.; Diplopappus dubius Cass.; Doronicum bellidiflorum Schrank; Erigeron annuus f. discoideus Vict. & J.Rousseau; Erigeron annuus var. discoideus (Vict. & J.Rousseau) Cronquist; Erigeron annuus subsp. lilacinus Sennikov & Kurtto; Erigeron bellidioides Spenn.; Erigeron diversifolius Rich. ex Rchb.; Erigeron heterophyllus Muhl. ex Willd.; Erigeron strigosus Bigelow; Phalacroloma acutifolium Cass.; Phalacroloma annuum Dumort.; Pulicaria annua Gaertn.; Pulicaria bellidiflora Wallr.; Stenactis annua (L.) Cass. ex Less.; Stenactis annua Cass.; Stenactis dubia Cass.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Erigeron annuus (L.) Pers.
• Common name : Annual Fleabane, Daisy fleabane, Eastern daisy fleabane, Sweet-scabious, Tall fleabane, Whitetop
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Garden plant, aslo grow as escape in wastelands and along roadsides; sea level to 1100 m. altitude
• Comments / notes : Naturalized in the hill stations of north India. Widely introduced worldwide.
• Key identification features : Leaves are alternately arranged. Lowest leaves are stalked, up to 10 cm long. Stalks are winged, up to 2 cm long.
• Flower, Fruit : April-November
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
• Native : Canada to U.S.A., Nicaragua to Panama
• Exotic/Native : Exotic
• World Distribution : Canada to U.S.A., Nicaragua to Panama and India, China
• Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 155
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Erigeron annuus. Downloaded on 9 December 2022.

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