Bat Dawana / Erect Horseweed
Conyza stricta
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- September-April
How to identify Bat Dawana
Identify Bat Dawana by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Hirsute (coarsely hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: September-April.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Bat Dawana.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Conyza stricta
- Genus
- Conyza
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- Africa, Asia, Himalayas, China
- Distribution
- India, Myanmar, Africa, W.Asia, Himalayas, China
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu & Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Goa, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Mizoram, Manipur, Ladakh, Nagaland, Haryana, Puducherry, Jharkhand, Tripura, Chandigarh
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-April
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bat Dawana itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bat Dawana itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- Bettada davana
- Marathi
- बट दवणा Bat dawana
- Hindi
- ऐस्टरेसिए
- Tamil
- சூரியகாந்திக் குடும்பம்
- Telugu
- ఆస్టరేసి
- Malayalam
- ആസ്റ്റ്രേസീ
- Urdu
- تارا پھول
About Bat Dawana
Erect Horseweed (Conyza stricta) is a herb in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 30 other states. It grows in dry deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from September to April.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Bat Dawana belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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