• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sonchus oleraceus (L.) L.
• Common name : Common Sow Thistle, Milk Thistle, Milk weed
• Vernacular name : Dudhi, Dodak, Titlia (Hindi); oosithagarai (Tamil); Ratrinta (Telugu); Varapputhannel (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m,a weed of cultivation, fallow fields, shola forests etc.
• Flower, Fruit : October-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sonchus oleraceus. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

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