India: Addhahpushpi.
Region: Mauritius, west Asia, Afghanistan, East Asia, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar.
Habitat: tropics, subtropics; roadsides, stony dry wastelands; elevations up to 1500 metres.
Content: pyrrolizidine alkaloids; steroidal, beta-sitosterol phenolics; catechin; gallic acid.
Use: medicinal; food; herbicidal against
Lemna minor; insecticidal against Rhizopertha dominica; corrosion inhibitor of steel.
BotanyHerb; erect, spreading, branched; annual; about 50 cm tall.
Leaves: acrid, bitter.