Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

An introduced tree native to Australia . Planted in some locations in the higher hills. An invasive tree in some other countries where th...

An introduced herb native to Europe, Asia minor and Northern Asia. Naturalized along roadsides and open places among grasses in the high...

 An indigenous prostrating or trailing small vine occurs in the low country. Common in the dry zone and occasionally found also in the wet...

An indigenous shrub of the the dry zone. Mostly in the northern part of  the country.

An indigenous vine common in coastal lowland scrubs and forests edges, mostly in the dry zone and lower hill country. 

Large or small bush or small tree common in the dry areas, especially near the coast. Native plant of  India , Arabian peninsula and Afg...

An erect or climbing herb. Cultivated crop of ancient uncertain origin. Also naturalized in the dry areas. Pods eaten raw or cooked. Whol...

An indigenous erect or procurement herb grows on patanas and sometime in roadside open places in the montane zone. 

An indigenous shrubby perennial found along roadsides among bushes in the wet zone, intermediate zone and the hill country up to 1400 m a...

 Common introduced herb occurs mainly in the hill country road sides and weedy places. Sometime introduced in pastures.

An introduced  shrub native to the Mexico , Central and South America . First identified at the Mahaweli river bank near  Kandy in 1996 ...

An introduced tree native to the  South America . Rain tree was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1851 and since then widely planted as an ave...

Trailing or climbing vine cultivated widely throughout the country as a food crops. 

Common native herb found in lawns and among short vegetation in the dry zone. Flower size - 1-1.2 cm long

Common native large herb of the low country. 

Rather rare endemic tree found in southwestern wet lowland forests. *Adenanthera bicolor Moon is a misapplied name which has been err...

An indigenous shrub grows in openings in dry and intermediate zone forests.

An introduced herb native to tropical and subtropical America . Cultivated as a green-manure cover crop and as hay. Escaped and naturaliz...

Common native erect, trailing or more or less twining perennial herb in light woodlands of the low country up to about 1000 m elevations. 

Common native annual herb occurs in the dry zone areas and occasionally also in the hill country.