About Creeping Marshweed
Limnophila repens, the creeping marshweed, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the family Plantaginaceae. It grows up to 45 cm tall both in terrestrial and fresh water habitats. The plant has a strong aromatic smell. Stems are covered with fine hair. Leaves are subsessile opposite and oblong. Violet-pink(rarely yellow) flowers are axilary and solitary or in short racemes. Seeds are angular and brown. Flowering season: November to May.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Limnophila repens
- Genus
- Limnophila
- Family
- SCROPHULARIACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Wet places and paddy fields
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-February
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Local Names
- Hindi
- कपूर kapur
- Bengali
- মাইট্যা কেশরী maitya keshari
- Kannada
- ಆಮರಗಂಧಿ amaragandhi, ಮಾಂಗನ್ನಾರಿ maangannaari
- Malayalam
- മാങ്ങനാറി maangannaari, മാങ്ങനാറി
- Marathi
- सरपट तुरटी sarpat turati
Scrophulariaceae
Figwort family
Creeping Marshweed belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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