Showing posts with label Native Flora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Flora. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Cyphostemma setosum

 An indigenous herbaceous scrambler of open sandy vegetations, usually near the coast including salt flats but not on dunes. 

Flower Size: 0.3-0.5 cm

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Lindernia hyssopioides

 An indigenous herb very common in paddy fields and borders of ponds in the wet lowlands and of the wet hill country up to 550 m elevations. 

Monday, January 6, 2025

Utricularia caerulea

 An indigenous terrestrial herb of wet grasslands, shallow soil overlaying rocks, stream sides and damp open vegetations from sea level to 2300 m elevations. Flowering more or less throughout the year. 

Flower Size: 2 mm across, 6 mm long

Saturday, January 4, 2025

කඳුලැස්ස/Indian Sundew (Drosera indica)

An indigenous  small herb of moist places near paddy fields, swamps, ditches, shallow pools and wet patanas. Common in lowlands and sometimes in lower hills. 

Friday, January 3, 2025

Canscora heteroclita

 An indigenous slender herb common in exposed, damp, grassy places, usually among rocky outcrops in the northern, western and eastern parts of the dry lowlands and in the dry intermediate region.  Flowering from October to February.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Centranthera tranquebarica

An indigenous herb of damp grassy places close to water sources, ponds or paddy fields in both dry and wet zones. Rather rare and flowering from May to February..

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

White Witchweed (Striga angustifolia)

 

An indigenous herb fairly common along roadsides and open country among short grass in the dry zone and in open grassy slopes of the wet lowlands and the hill country. The plant parasite the roots of grasses. Flowering from August to October and December to May. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024

කොර කහ/Blue-Mist(Memecylon umbellatum)


 An indigenous large shrub or small tree common mainly in the dry zone forests and scrublands. Leaves yields a yellow dye. 

Monday, August 5, 2024

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Monday, April 15, 2024

Smilax aspera

 An indigenous much-branched climbing shrub rather common in montane zone. Flowering in April.  

Sunday, April 14, 2024

ලාවුළු (Donella lanceolata [Syn: Chrysophyllum roxburghii])

 An indigenous common tree of primary and secondary wet evergreen forests from 30 to 900 m elevations, often by river banks.

Friday, April 12, 2024

Stellaria pauciflora

 An indigenous annual herb rare in shaded, moist places in lower montane zone from 915 to 1220 m elevations. Flowering in April.  

Monday, April 8, 2024

Clinopodium umbrosum

 An indigenous herb fairly common in wet patanas, along borders of marshy lands and slopes of tea plantations close to water courses of the wet up country from 2000 to 3600 m elevations. Flowering all the year round. 

Flower Size: 0.4 - 0.6 cm across

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Peperomia tetraphylla


 An indigenous perennial herb locally common on mossy rocks and trees in montane forests above 1000 m altitudes. 


Friday, January 12, 2024

Digera muricata

 An indigenous annual herb locally common along roadsides and gardens of dry and sandy places. 

Sunday, January 7, 2024