Buar-Zen / Flax-Leaved Horseweed
Erigeron bonariensis
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Maharashtra, Meghalaya & more
- Flowering
- June-January
How to identify Buar-Zen
Identify Buar-Zen 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 margin: Undulate.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: June-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Erigeron bonariensis
- Genus
- Erigeron
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Grasslands, moist deciduous forests and weed of cultivations
- Habitat type
- Forest, Grassland, Cultivated, Wasteland
- Native to
- S.America
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Telangana, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland
- Flowering & fruiting
- June-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- UndulaterecordedA wavy, rippled edge.“It is instantly recognisable by its blue-green foliage, very narrow, undulate stem-leaves, and purple-tipped involucral bracts.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Buar-Zen itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“Its flower heads have white ray florets and yellow disc 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 Buar-Zen itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Mizo
- Buar-zen
About Buar-Zen
Flax-Leaved Horseweed (Erigeron bonariensis) belongs to the Asteraceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Maharashtra, Meghalaya and 15 other states. It grows in grasslands, moist deciduous forests and weed of cultivations. Flowering and fruiting run from June to January.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Buar-Zen belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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