Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

An indigenous herb common under shade in intermediate zone forests, often in rocky grounds. Flowering from March to August. 

Common native annual herb grows among grass on the slopes of patana lands of the montane areas, generally above 2000 m a.s.l. Flowering thro...

  Large prickly herb native to West Africa . Cultivated as an ornamental plant and also possibly escaped and naturalized in the hill country...

 Common native shrub cultivated as a hedge plant and occasionally on borders of paddy fields in the low and mid country. Widely used in trad...

 An indigenous shrubby herb common in the undergrowth of montane forests close to water courses. Flowering from September to April with a pe...

 An introduced herb or subshrub native to Mexico and South America . Cultivated in home gardens and occasionally escaped and naturalized. 

An indigenous undershrub of mid country moist places. Flowering from January to April. 

Rathe rare endemic herb of moist mid country. Flowering from March to July and November. It was considered as a Critically endangered (Possi...

 An endemic shrubby herb grows under shade in busy localities in sub montane and moist mid country. Often grows on embankments bordering dis...

An endemic and rare undershrub grows by the streams in moist south western hill forests from 650 to 1300 m elevations.

An endemic prostrate herb grows among grasses in under shade of secondary dry lowland forests. Often occurs close to streams. Flowering f...

An indigenous (?) prostrate herb grows among grass in light shade of the Northern dry and intermediate regions. *An addition to the f...

An introduced small shrub native to the Mauritius . Cultivated as a hedge plant in home gardens. 

Common native herb with straggling hairy stems, grows close to the streams of dry and moist lowland secondary forest undergrowth. Flowe...

An introduced climber native to tropical East Africa . Cultivated as an ornamental. An escape from Botanic Gardens and naturalized along ...

Very rare indigenous herb considered as a  Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) in the 2012 Red list.  However  Jayasinghe H.D.  has ...

Rhinacanthus flavovirens is a recently described endemic perennial herb distributed in secondary forests of North Central, Central and S...

Common native herb or small undershrub grows in light shade among rocks or in sandy ground among short grass in the dry lowlands. Floweri...

An endemic under-shrub grows in primary and secondary montane forests and scrubs mainly in the northern part of the Kandy district from 9...

An indigenous small shrub grows along streams and river banks of secondary forest undergrowth in the dry and intermediate zones. Common a...