• 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) : Baccharoides anthelmintica (L.) Moench
• Common name : Purple Fleabane
• Vernacular name : Kalijeera, Somraj (Hindi); Adavijilakara (Telugu); Aranyajeerka (Sanskrit); Kattucheeragam (Tamil); Kalajirakam, Karinjeeragum, Kattujeeragum, Krimisathru (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 750m,fallow fields, wasteland, deciduous forest and also grown as medicinal plant
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Indo-Malesia, Afghanisthan, Laos
• 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; 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=Vernonia anthelmintica. Downloaded on 3 February 2025.

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