• Family : ONAGRACEAE
  (Evening-Primrose Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : OENOTHERA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ONAGRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ludwigia peruviana (L.) H.Hara
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist places
• Comments / notes : In plains along banks of rivers, ponds and streams. Mostly introduced in tropics.
• Flower, Fruit : August-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Mandya district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district, Salem district
• Native : Neotropics
• World Distribution : South-East United States, South America, Naturalized elsewhere
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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=Ludwigia peruviana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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