Little Ironweed
Cyanthillium cinereum
- Found in India
- Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra & more
How to identify Little Ironweed
Identify Little Ironweed by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Little Ironweed.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cyanthillium cinereum
- Genus
- Cyanthillium
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Found in India
- Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, Uttarakhand, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Puducherry, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Manipur, Tripura
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Little Ironweed itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“It produces flat-topped arrays of numerous flower heads, each with pinkish or purplish disc florets but no ray florets.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Little Ironweed itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Marathi
- सदोदी
- Bengali
- কুকসিমা
- Sinhala
- මොණර කුඩුම්බිය
About Little Ironweed
Little ironweed (Cyanthillium cinereum) belongs to the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Telangana, Maharashtra and 28 other states.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Little Ironweed belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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