• Family : CONVOLVULACEAE
  (MORNING-GLORY FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Convolvulaceae
• Species : Convolvulus arvensis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Convolvulus arvensis L.
• Vernacular name : Hiranpadi (Hin.); Bhoomi Chakkar pondu (Tam.);
• Key identification features : Terete herbs. Stem trailing, or twining, slighly angular, glabrous or sparesly pubescent. Linear or triangular oblong. Apically obtuse and glabrous on both sides. Flowers are broadly infundibuliform, white, turning to pinkish-white to pink with age. Capsule black, globose with 4 blackish-brown seeds.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Native : Europe
• Comments : Occasional in forests, common in wastelands, marshes, cultivated fields and along hedges of the ghats.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Bellary district, Kolar district (Karnataka State); Kadapa district (Andhra Pradesh State); Kuridimalai Hills (Coimbatore district) (Tamil Nadu State)
• World Distribution : Wide spread in tropics, subtropics and temperate world
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Convolvulus arvensis. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.

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