Description:
Avena ludoviciana includes cultivated species with different ploidy levels and a number of wild species reflecting a wide range of botanical and eco-logical diversity. A majority of these forms came from the centers of origin, which by definition shows great diversity of Avena species.
Local Name:
Jangali javi (Hindi), Javai (Punjabi)
Description:
Phalaris minor is a species of grass native to North Africa, Europe, and South Asia. It is widely naturalised elsewhere. Common names include little seed canary grass, small-seeded canary grass, small canary grass. It grows as a tufted annual bunchgrass up to 1.8 m in height. It is used as a fodder or forage for livestock and is a potential contaminant of seed crops.
Local Name:
Gulli danda / Gehu ka mama / Mandusi (Hindi), Mandusi / Gulli danda (Punjabi)
Description:
Poa annua is an example of cool-season weedy grasses that occasionally occur in wheat. It is the only flowering plant species that has established a breeding population in the maritime Antarctic. The first appearance of this species in the Antarctic was observed in 1953. Annual bluegrass inhabits mainly anthropogenic sites, but recently has entered tundra communities. While they are competitive and limit wheat yield, they tend to be shorter and less conspicuous than ryegrass and brome grasses.
Local Name: Not available
Description:
Polypogon monspeliensis, commonly known as annual beard grass or annual rabbit foot grass is a species of grass. It is native to southern Europe, but it can be found today throughout the world as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed. The soft, fluffy inflorescence is a dense, greenish, plumelike panicle, sometimes divided into lobes. The spikelets have long, thin, whistish awns which give the inflorescence its texture.
Local Name:
Lomar ghas (Hindi), Loombar gha (Punjabi)
Description:
Anagallis arvensis is a low-growing annual plant with brightly colored flowers, most often scarlet but also bright blue and sometimes pink. The native range of the species is Europe and Western Asia and North Africa. It is now naturalised almost worldwide, with a range that encompasses the Americas, Central and East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Malesia, the Pacific Islands, Australasia and Southern Africa.
Local Name:
Krishan neel, Dharti Dhak (Hindi), Krishan neel (Punjabi), Suryakanti Soppu (Kannada), Ran Draksh (Marathi)
Description:
Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant indigenous to eastern Asia but now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation. It has been cultivated throughout recorded history used as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, recreation, religious and spiritual moods and medicine. Each part of the plant is harvested differently depending on the purpose of its use.
Local Name:
Ganja / Bhang (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali), Bhangi / Ganja (Kannada), Bhang (Marathi, Gujarati), Alatam / Anantha muli (Tamil), Bhangiaaku / Ghanja chettu (Telugu),
Description:
Coronopus didymus are generally low spreading annual herbaceous plants with many long stems, deeply lobed leaves and small white flowers. They have a strong scent, smelling like garden cress, when crushed. It may be native to the Mediterranean but widespread weed introduced species in other areas as well.
Local Name:
Bhania buti (Punjabi), Jangli hala / Pitpapra (Hindi), Gabbu kothambari (Kannada), Gajor patta / Bakos (Bengali), Vishamungli (Telugu)
Description:
Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere. The standard English name in its native area is creeping thistle. It is also commonly known as Canada thistle and field thistle. The plant is beneficial for pollinators that rely on nectar.
Local Name:
Katilli / Khandai (Hindi), Katilli (Punjabi)
Description:
Chenopodium album is a fast growing weedy annual is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop known as bathua. Its native range is obscure due to extensive cultivation but includes most of Europe from where Linnaeus described the species in 1753. It is widely naturalised elsewhere e.g. Africa, Australasia, North America, Oceania and now occurs almost everywhere (even apparently in Antarctica) in soils rich in nitrogen especially on waste land.
Local Name: Bhathuwa / Bathoo (Hindi), Bathavo (Gujarati), Chakravarti soppu (Kannada), Chakvat (Marathi), Chakravarthi keerai (Tamil), Vasthukam / Pappukura (Telugu), Betho shaak / Lal bhutka (Bengali), Bathu (Punjabi)
Description:
Convolvulus arvensis is a species of bindweed that is rhizomatous and is in the morning glory family native to Europe and Asia. Field bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis is a perennial, noxious weed in Europe and many agricultural areas of the world. It is a member of the morning-glory family (Convolvulaceae) Field bindweed has been described as the twelfth worst weed in the world.
Local Name:
Hiran khuri (Hindi), Bel wali buti (Punjabi), Chandvel (Marathi)
Description:
Fumaria parviflora is a species of flowering plant known by the common names fine leaf fumitory, fine-leaved fumitory and Indian fumitory. It is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but it is common and widely distributed in many other parts of the world. It is sometimes weedy. The small flowers are dull white with purple tips. The fruit is a rounded nutlet with a central crest.
Local Name: Jangali gajar (Hindi), Gajra (Punjabi)
Description:
Lathyrus aphaca is a legume known as the yellow pea or yellow vetchling. It is native to southern Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa. Some consider it to be a weed, particularly when in areas where it is an introduced species, including northern Europe and North America. It acclimates best to dry places such as sand, gravel, and chalk, and requires a well-drained habitat.
Local Name:
Jangali matar / Tivda (Hindi), Jangali matar (Punjabi)
Description:
Malva parviflora is an annual or perennial herb that is native to Northern Africa, Europe and Asia and is widely naturalised elsewhere. Common names include cheese-weed. In 1753, Carolus Linnaeus was the first to distinguish Malva species within the Malvaceae family based on their characteristic epicalyx.
Local Name:
Battan butti (Hindi, Punjabi)
Description:
Medicago denticulata is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as medick or burclover, in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is distributed mainly around the Mediterranean basin. It is an annual decumbent herb.
Local Name: Jangali methi (Hindi), Methi buti (Punjabi)
Description:
Melilotus indica plant found in Asia, Europe and throughout Arabia as a weed of cultivation and has been introduced to many regions of the world. This has been reported to be emollient, astringent, strongly laxative and narcotic
Local Name:
Kali senji / Senji / Senji-methi (Hindi), Ban methi (Bengali), Kali senji (Punjabi), Ran methi (Marathi)
Description:
Melilotus alba, known as honey clover, white melilot, and sweet clover, is a nitrogen-fixing legume in the family Fabaceae. It is considered a valuable honey plant and source of nectar and is often grown for forage. It is of Eurasian origin but can now be found throughout the subtropical to temperate zones, especially in North America, and is common in sand dune, prairie, bunchgrass, meadow, and riparian habitats.
Local Name:
Safed senji / Khandi (Hindi), Chitti senji (Punjabi), Ran methi (Marathi)
Description:
Polygonum plebeium is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family, found natively throughout much of South Asia including India, in Madagascar, and introduced to the United States and Australia. It occurs in disturbed habitats that frequently are flooded, such as banks, ditches, and rice fields. It is used as a vegetable in food in some locations.
Local Name:
Chimiti sag / Machhechi / Lal buti (Hindi), Gulabi godhadi (Marathi), Chimati sag (Bengali), Zinako okhrad (Gujarati), Kempu nela akki (Kannada), Chimati kura (Telugu)
Description:
Rumex dentatus is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family known by the common names toothed dock and Aegean dock. It is native to parts of Eurasia and North Africa, and it is widely known elsewhere as an introduced species. It grows in disturbed habitat, often in moist areas, such as lakeshores and the edges of cultivated fields.
Local Name:
Jangali palak (Hindi, Punjabi)
Description:
Rumex spinosus commonly known as devil's thorn or lesser jack, is an annual herbaceous plant of the Polygonaceae. It originates in the warmer parts of the old world, but now has spread with humans to other places. It is common in disturbed areas, especially in sandy soils. It has shown some weedy behavior in restricted areas within southern Australia.
Local Name:
Jangali palak (Hindi, Punjabi)
Description:
Stellaria media is an annual and perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized in throughout the world. This species is used as a cooling herbal remedy and grown as a vegetable crop and ground cover for both human and poultry consumption. It is sometimes called common chickweed to distinguish it from other plants called chickweed. Other common names include chickenwort, craches, maruns and winter weed. The plant germinates in autumn or late winter, then forms large mats of foliage.
Local Name:
Buch bucha (Hindi)
Description:
Solanum nigrum the simply black nightshade or blackberry nightshade, is a species in the genus Solanum native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas, Australasia and South Africa. Ripe berries and cooked leaves of edible strains are used as food in some locales and plant parts are used as a traditional medicine. It is found in many wooded areas as well as disturbed habitats.
Local Name:
Makoe / Pilak / Papotan (Hindi), Makoe (Punjabi), Picchi mirapa / Kanchi ponda / Kasaka (Telugu), Kangani / Laghukavali (Marathi), Manatakkali (Tamil), Karikaachi gida (Kannada) , Makoh / Piludi (Gujarati), Bon begun / Kakmachi (Bengali)
Description:
Vicia sativa is an important fodder legume crop. It has a confused taxonomy and it is considered to be in active evolution. This species is morphologically and karyologically variable which makes its taxonomy difficult. The regions of greatest interest for curators and collectors of V. sativa germplasm are some regions of Transcaucasus (Nagornyi Karabakh, Talysh range, Lenkoran valley) and South of Crimea.
Local Name:
Chatri / Chatri matari (Hindi), Chatri / Chatari matari (Punjabi)