Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Sarita Udyan
About Sonchus wightianus Plant :
Habit : A perennial erect herb with cylindric rootstock or rhizome.
Stem : Tall, glabrous and densely pilose.
Leaves : Pinnatifid or runcinate-pinnatifid. Leaflets lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse or acute at apex, spinulose-serrate along the margins, glaucous below.
Inflorescence : Capitulum (Head), heads cylindric, broadly campanulate or erect.
Flowers :
Involucral bracts 3-4 seriate, lanceolate.
Corolla 5-toothed, yellow, ligulate, pappus hairs many seriate, white.
Fruit : Achenes oblong, faintly transversely rugose.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : January - April
Significance :
Roots are known to be used in jaundice, cough, bronchitis, asthma.
