Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

An indigenous herb common in marshy ponds, margins of tanks, flooded paddy fields in wet and dry lowlands. Flowering from March to December.

An introduced annual herb native to tropical America. Naturalized in cultivated grounds and roadsides of the hill country. Flowering from...

Rather rare native herb found under shade along forest borders, waste lands and paddy field borders from wet lowlands to about 1100 m ele...

Native herb of Indo China . Introduced and cultivated in gardens. Flowering from March to June and September (Possibly in other months as...

An indigenous decumbent or erect herb widespread in paddy fields, marshlands, etc. from wet lowlands to lower hills. Occasionally also oc...

An endemic herb occurs in damp places close to ditches or a watercourse in the wet lowlands below 700 m a.s.l. Flowering from March to De...

An indigenous herb grows in wet places among grass and on damp rocks in the dry lowlands and the wet hills up to about 650 m a.s.l. Less ...

An indigenous small herb common in harvested paddy fields and pond edges in wet lowlands and up to 550 m altitude in the wet hills. It us...

Rather common indigenous herb occurs in open grassy places of the wet lowlands and the hill country, up to about 1800 m altitudes. Prob...

Common indigenous decumbent or prostrate herb occurs among grass in paddy fields, roadsides, tank and pond edges and humus-filled rocky ...

Prostrate herb with ascending branches grows under shade in damp grassy grounds in the upper hills above 1800m a.s.l.Flowering throughout...

Native herb of Brazil , introduced and cultivated as an ornamental.

An indigenous prostrate herb in wet grassy places, paddy fields after harvest and along tanks in wet and dry lowlands. Very common and fl...

Native plant of Ecuador . Naturalized in the hill country above 1650m in roadsides, damp grounds, grassy embankments, close to watercours...

An indigenous herb common in harvested paddy fields in wet lowlands to wet hills up to about 550m altitude. Also along ditches in the hil...

An endemic herb with creeping stems, occurs between 160m to 1800m elevations from wet lowlands to hills.  Much common in the hill country...

An indigenous common prostrate to ascending herb grows near paddy fields and tank or pond edges from both wet and dry lowlands to about ...

Common introduced perennial herb grows in roadsides and waste lands in both wet and dry lowlands. Native plant of tropical America . Flow...

Native to Brazil . Introduced to Sri Lanka as an ornamental plant in 1847. Since then it has naturalized along the borders of ditches,...

Common indigenous herb of shaded footpaths usually along forest borders of wet low country and lower hills. This Torenia species can be ...