Japanese mazus

     Japanese mazus, Asian mazus • Nepali: ताप्रे झार Taapre Jhaar, मालती झार Maalati JhaarBotanical name:Mazus pumilusFamily:Mazaceae (Mazus family) Asian mazus is found growing as a Forb/herb in wet grassland, along…

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Great Mullein.

 Botanical name: Verbascum thapsus      Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort family) Great Mullein is a very distinctive plant, with an erect leafy stem with a slender woolly spike of many yellow flowers, and with inverted-lanceshaped pale…

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Black Pea

Thermopsis barbata Fabaceae This member of the pea family is about 10 inches tall with leaves that have three leaflets. The small rounded leaflets are covered with thick silver hairs.…

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Wild Snake Gourd

Trichosanthes cucumerina subsp. cucumerina     Family: Cucurbitaceae (Pumpkin family)Synonyms: Trichosanthes reniformis, Trichosanthes wightiana Wild Snake Gourd is an annual, stout climber with 3-fid, finely velvet-hairy tendrils. Stem is slightly velvet-hairy. Leaves are round-kidney-shaped or…

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Pavetta

Common name: Tubeflower PavettaBotanical name:Pavetta siphonantha Family:Rubiaceae (Coffee family)Synonyms: Pavetta hispidula var. siphonantha Tubeflower Pavetta is plant with leaves with are lanceshaped to elliptic-lanceshaped, long-pointed, hairless above softly-velvety below. White flowers are borne…

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