Carpet Weed
Mollugo pentaphylla
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Carpet Weed
Identify Carpet Weed 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: Leaves in whorls of five.
- Confirm leaf shape: Spoon-shaped.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Aizoaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Carpet Weed.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mollugo pentaphylla
- Genus
- Mollugo
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Moist localities
- Native to
- Old World tropics
- Distribution
- Tropics & sub-tropics of the World
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Spoon-shapedrecorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Carpet Weed itself; the rest are typical of the Aizoaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Typical of the Aizoaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Bengali
- খেত পাপরা
About Carpet Weed
A member of the Aizoaceae family, Carpet Weed (Mollugo pentaphylla) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and 7 other states. It grows in moist localities. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Aizoaceae
Carpet-Weed Family
Carpet Weed belongs to the Aizoaceae family.
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