Looking at leaves in your plant being more greener on upper surface and distinctly whitish on lower and lax low clusters your plant may be G. purpurea. Here is my G. pensylvanica
http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Pennsylvania%20Cudweed.html -- 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 Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many many thanks Gurcharan ji for this help with ID. > Have sighted this herb many times earlier; was eager to know the plant. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dinesh ji >> It is Gamochaeta (formerly Gnaphalium), probably G. purpureum or G. >> pensylvanicum ( American weed, often confused with G. purpureum, recently >> become common in Delhi and other parts of India). Here is how you can >> separate them >> >> Leaf surfaces of different colour, upper white hairy, lower almost >> glabrous; >> basal leaves persistent at anthesis; inflorescence spicate, lower >> glomerules of heads often >> pedunculate..............................................G. purpurea >> Leaf surfaces not markedly different; basal leaves withered at anthesis; >> heads in spicate panicles, densely wooly 2/3 from >> base....................G. pensylvanica >> >> -- >> 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 Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear friends ... ID please. >>> *Place*: at top of Ratangad (~ 754 m / 2473 ft asl), near Bhandardara, >>> Maharshtra. >>> *Time*: January 14, 2012 at 12.27pm >>> *Habit*: tender prostrate herb, about 6" - 10" high >>> *Habitat*: damp bed of a drying pond >>> >>> *Flower head size*: about 2 - 3 mm >>> >>> >>> Regards. >> >> >> >> >> >> >
