Sonsari is an erect annual herb 20-25 cm tall. Stem is
covered with velvety hairs. The upper part of the plant has many
slender branches in corymbs. Alternately arranged elliptic, lancelike
leaves are 5-8 cm long. The leaves have serrated margins, and the are
covered with hairs on both sides. While the lower leaves have stalk,
the upper ones are stalkless and stem-clasping, with heart-shaped base.
Yellow flower-heads, 2 cm across, occur in corymbs, on verly slender,
hairy, branched stalks. The species name cernuum means nodding,
referring to the flowers on the slender, bending stalks. Leaf-like
bracts are present in the middle of the flower-stalks. Ray flowers are
20-40 in number, linear and 3-notched at the tip. Sonsari is
occasionally seen in forest clearings at high elevations in the Western
Ghats. Flowering: November-February.
Identification credit: Navendu Pagé, J.M. Garg
Photographed at Tungi Fort, Lonavala-Pawna, Maharashtra.
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