Limnanthemum indicum | Kumud

Limnanthemum indicum

Family:Gentianaceae

Common names: Kumud

An aquatic floating herb with horizontal rhizome , with petiole like branches producing nodes , from which starts tuft of roots, a cluster of flowers, a single floating leaf orbicular and cordate.
flowers white with a yellow centre.
Flowers April-September. In tanks throughout the state. Propagated by rhizomes.

Eichhornia Crassipas | Water Hyacinth, Lilae Devil

Classification of Eichhornia Crassipas

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Commelinales
Family:	Pontederiaceae
Genus:	Eichhornia
Species:	E. crassipes
Binomial name
Eichhornia crassipes

Common Names :- Water Hyacinth, Lilae Devil.
An upright south American floating herb. Leaves with large swollen petioles; leaves erect panicles of beautiful mauve or lilac flowers. Grown in garden tanks, for its flowers; a floating trouble-some
Water-weed sometimes blocking rivers and water ways.

Zinnia Elegans

Classification of Zinnia Elegans

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Heliantheae
Genus:	Zinnia

A most beautiful annual with varieties bearing large, gay crimson, scarlet, straw – coloured flowers, froming quite a garden by themselves for a very long season. There is a double variety. Propagate by seeds.

Tropaeolum majus

Classification of Tropaeolum majus

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Tropaeolaceae
Genus:	Tropaeolum
Species:	T. majus
Binomial name
Tropaeolum majus

A beautiful and showy annual; leaves having a form of a buckler and the flowers resemble an empty helmet.
There are many varieties. Some are dwarf, some are more or less climbing, producing flowers of various shades, pale straw - colour, orange, scarlet, dark crimson, spotted and striped. Propagated by seeds. A native of South America.

Tradescantia Discolor

Classification of Tradescantia Discolor

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Commelinales
Family:	Commelinaceae
Genus:	Tradescantia
Species:	T. spathacea
Binomial name
Tradescantia spathacea

A herbaceous plant; leaves large, upright , narrowly lanceolate, sheathed at the base , green above and purpole beneath; flowers blue or purple almost included within the bracts .
It is a striking plant.
Propogated by offsets.

Torenia Fournieri

Classification of Torenia Fournieri

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Scrophulariaceae
Genus:	Torenia
Species:	T. fournieri
Binomial name
Torenia fournieri

An erect annual , native of Cochin –China.
Flowers showy ,purple with broadly winged calyx.

Torenia Asiatica

Classification of Torenia Asiatica

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Scrophulariaceae
Genus:	Torenia

A diffusely branched annual.
Flowers 2 – lipped, bluish – purple with dark – violet lateral lobes. It makes a pretty basket plant in a moist conservatory.
Propagated by cuttings. Tropical.

Telanthera Ficoidea

Telanthera Ficoidea

Family – Amarantaceae.

A small plant. Its leaves take a fine crimson colour from July to September.
A favourite edging plant in the gardens. Native if Triopical America.

Tagetus Patula

Classification of Tagetus Patula

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Tageteae
Genus:	Tagetes
Species:	T. patula
Binomial name
Tagetes patula

A smaller plant than the above with smaller flowers. Propagated by seeds.

Tagetus Erecta | Marigold | Zendu | Makhamal

Classifdication of Tagetus Erecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Tagetes
Species:	T. erecta
Binomial name
Tagetes erecta

Common Names :- Marigold; Zendu; Makhamal.

A small plant with erect stem and erect branches. Flowers, handsome, showy, yellow.
There are many varieties some with flowers as large and as double as ordinary sized Dahlias. Flowers in Sept. – Nov.