Sahadevi / Ash Fleabane
Vernonia cinerea
Also known as Ash Colored Fleabane, Purple Fleabane
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Sahadevi
Identify Sahadevi 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: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Sahadevi.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Vernonia cinerea
- Genus
- Vernonia
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Foothills of deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Delhi, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Nagaland, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sahadevi itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“It produces flat-topped arrays of numerous flower heads, each with pinkish or purplish disc florets but no ray florets.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Sahadevi itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Sahadevi सहदेवी
- Kannada
- ಸಹದೇವಿ Sahadevi, ದಂಡೋತ್ಪಲ Dandotpala, ಗಾಯದೊಪ್ಪಲು Gaayadoppalu
- Manipuri
- ꯈꯣꯡꯖꯥꯢ ꯅꯄꯤ Khongjai napi
- Marathi
- Sadodi
- Tamil
- பூவங்குருந்தல் Puvamkuruntal
- Telugu
- Sahadevi
- Bengali
- Kuksim
- Nepali
- मरचाझार Marchaa Jhaar
About Sahadevi
A member of the Asteraceae family, Ash Fleabane (Vernonia cinerea) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and 16 other states. It grows in foothills of deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Sahadevi belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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