Kapur / Creeping Marshweed
Limnophila repens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand & more
- Flowering
- July-February
How to identify Kapur
Identify Kapur 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.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Creeping (repens) mat-forming habit.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Opposite.
- Confirm leaf shape: Oblong.
- Confirm flower colour: Blue/purple.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Raceme.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: July-February.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Limnophila repens
- Genus
- Limnophila
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Wet places and paddy fields
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-February
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- OppositerecordedTwo leaves arise from the stem at the same point, facing each other.“Leaves are subsessile opposite and oblong.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- OblongrecordedLonger than wide with roughly parallel sides, the ends rounded.“Leaves are subsessile opposite and oblong.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kapur itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Blue/purplerecorded
- Flower arrangement
- RacemerecordedIndividual stalked flowers arranged along a central stem, opening from bottom to top.“Violet-pink(rarely yellow) flowers are axilary and solitary or in short racemes.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kapur itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- कपूर kapur
- Bengali
- মাইট্যা কেশরী maitya keshari
- Kannada
- ಆಮರಗಂಧಿ amaragandhi, ಮಾಂಗನ್ನಾರಿ maangannaari
- Malayalam
- മാങ്ങനാറി maangannaari, മാങ്ങനാറി
- Marathi
- सरपट तुरटी sarpat turati
About Kapur
Creeping Marshweed (Limnophila repens) belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and 1 other states. It grows in wet places and paddy fields. Flowering and fruiting run from July to February.
Scrophulariaceae
Figwort family
Kapur belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family.
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