Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

  An introduced shrub with country of origin unknown. Also found in tropical East Africa . Widely cultivated as a hedge plant in the upper m...

An indigenous perennial herb. Common weed in waste places and roadsides in both dry and wet lowlands and lower hills from sea level to 70...

An indigenous herb grows on damp grounds of the dry lowlands, along secondary forest edges, roadside ditches and tanks of the intermedi...

An indigenous undershrub common in damp undergrowth of montane forests in the lower and higher uplands from 700 to 2000 m a.s.l. Also cul...

An endemic perennial herb grows in partial shade by streams in secondary wet lowland forests up to about 200 m a.s.l. A gregarious plant ...

Common native shrub or undershrub found along shaded roadsides and waste places from sea level to about 530 m a.s.l. Flowering througho...

Large indigenous herb restricted to the shaded places near streams in secondary submontane forests from 640 to 1400 m elevations. Rarely ...

An indigenous herb rather common in shaded roadside ditches and damp undergrowth of submontane to montane forests from 1000 -2700 m a.s.l...

Large endemic perennial herb grows in partial shade close to streams in secondary montane forests from 1200 to 2600 a.s.l. Flowering most...

An introduced ornamental shrub native to the Brazil . Popular bedding plant of gardens.

An introduced perennial herb native to  Mexico to Peru and West Indies . Introduced as an ornamental. Escaped and naturalized along roa...

Common native herb occurs along roadsides and open waste places from lowlands to about 530 m elevations. Flowering from December to Augus...

Introduced large herb native to tropical America . First collected from Sri Lanka in 1953. Naturalized in waste places and along road...

Rather common indigenous annual herb occurs in shaded or semi-exposed rocky edges of forest streams in the montane zone above 1400 m a....

An introduced herb native to Mexico . Widely cultivated in home gardens. Flowering throughout the year. Sometimes escaped and naturalized...

Native perennial herb of Eastern Asia and Malaysia . Extensively cultivated from lowlands to hills in gardens owing to its variable (Usua...

A herb native to southeast Asia , cultivated in gardens as an ornamental. 

Common indigenous herb occurs in waste places, roadsides, patana lands and forests from lowlands to about 2700m elevations. Flowering thr...

Perennial indigenous herb common in rocky embankments and roadsides from 100m altitude in dry lowlands to about 2000m a.s.l. in the hills...

Maha-yakwanassa is an indigenous  locally common herb in waste places, roadsides etc. in dry and intermediate zones from lowlands to ...