Annual Strawflower
Gnaphalium indicum
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Annual Strawflower
Identify Annual Strawflower 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: Tomentose (woolly, matted hairs).
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- 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 Annual Strawflower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Gnaphalium indicum
- Genus
- Gnaphalium
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- In dry localities
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan and Australia
- 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
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Tomentose (woolly, matted hairs)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Annual Strawflower 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 Annual Strawflower itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- ऐस्टरेसिए
- Tamil
- சூரியகாந்திக் குடும்பம்
- Telugu
- ఆస్టరేసి
- Malayalam
- ആസ്റ്റ്രേസീ
- Urdu
- تارا پھول
About Annual Strawflower
Annual Strawflower (Gnaphalium indicum) belongs to the Asteraceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and 30 other states. It grows in in dry localities. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Annual Strawflower belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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