Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop
Mecardonia procumbens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal & more
- Flowering
- July-January
How to identify Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop
Identify Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop 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: Prostrate (procumbent) creeping habit.
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: July-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Kerala and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Scrophulariaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mecardonia procumbens
- Genus
- Mecardonia
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded moist deciduous forests, grasslands and waste places. Garden weed
- Habitat type
- Forest, Grassland, Cultivated, Wasteland
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Distribution
- Naturalized in Tropics
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Mizoram, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Raceme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop itself; the rest are typical of the Scrophulariaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Marathi
- मकरदाना
About Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop
A member of the Scrophulariaceae family, Yellow-flowered waterhyssop (Mecardonia procumbens) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal and 15 other states. It grows in degraded moist deciduous forests, grasslands and waste places. Garden weed. Flowering and fruiting run from July to January.
Scrophulariaceae
Figwort family
Yellow-Flowered Waterhyssop belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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