Hi, Agree with Dr. Pankaj. This is an invasive weed - the Mexican Floss Flower [Ageratum houstonianum] a native of Peru & Mexico. With regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:63359] Fwd: WILD FLOWER ID To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> Cc: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>, "vikram jit singh" <vikramjitsing...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:56 PM Looks like Ageratum to me. Pankaj On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding for Id assistance please. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: vikram jit singh <vikramjitsing...@gmail.com> > Date: 22 February 2011 11:35 > Subject: WILD FLOWER ID > To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> > > > Dear Mr Garg, > > > I wanted to seek ur expertise on the identity of a wild purple flower which > grows in clumps in the lower Shiwalik foothills. It is very common and gives > of a exotic odour. I am attaching a pix. Could u tell me the name and > something about this flower. > Regards, > Vikram. > > (Vikram Jit Singh) > > Golf Columnist and Wildlife Correspondent: > > The Times of India > > at Chandigarh. > > > Columnist and Writer for: > > The Dainik Bhaskar > > Golf Style (India) > > The Tribune > > The Daily Ajit > > > > > > > 215, Sector 19 A, > Chandigarh -- 160019, > India. > > 0172-2724938 > 09814019356. > > Facebook Profile: > http://www.facebook.com/people/Vikram-Jit-Singh/543394961 > > > > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- > Efloraofindia:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix or > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (more than 1500 members & > 60,000 messages on 15/1/11 & with a database of around 4500 species on > 15/12/10) > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
