Agreed with Gurcharan ji. Cirsium is common weed in winter crops mainly wheat. Its English name is Canada Thistle. Tanay can inform about its status in Canada where I am sure it may be apart of Traditional Healing as useful herb.
regards Pankaj Oudhia On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Balkar ji, none of these is Cirsium arvense. Second and third seem to be > Cuphea. I hope you must be knowing Cirsium arvense well, still I am > uploading mine for clarification. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear All >> >> Cirsium arvense spiny herb from roadside waste places and near to wheat >> fields >> pls validate >> from Lohari Panipat >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> Dr Balkar Singh >> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >> Arya P G College, Panipat >> Haryana-132103 >> 09416262964 >> > > > > >
