Many thanks again Gurcharan ji. Looking through books of Shrikant ji for *Gnaphalium *... the Further Flowers of Sahyadri illustrates *Gnaphalium polycaulon* Pers. and *Gnaphalium luteo-album*.
And my posted plant fits description of *Gnaphalium polycaulon*, the flowering period. Please correct me if wrong. Regards. Dinesh On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > >
