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*Botanical name: Lathyrus sativus *Family: Fabaceae (pea family)  *Location: Khalilabad Sant Kabir Nagar Uttar Pradesh India  *Date - 26-03-2022 Common name: Grass Pea, Chickling pea, Indian vetch • Gujarati: लांग Lang • Hindi: खेसारी Khesari, लतरी Latari • Nepali: खेसारी Khesari  Grass Pea is a remarkable azure blue colored near relative of the common sweet pea. The blue color is very rare in peas. It is an annual herb, 1-2 ft tall. Stem is nearly berect, hairless, winged. Leaves have tendril at tip; axis winged. Stipules are semiarrow shaped, 1.8-2.5 cm x 2-5 mm; leaflets 1-paired, lanceshaped to linear, 1.8-2.5 cm x 2-5 mm, with parallel veins, margin entire. Flowers are borne 1 or 2 together; axis 3-6 cm. Sepal-cup bellshaped, nearly equally toothed, 2-3 times as long as tube. Flower are white, blue, or pink, 1.2-1.5 cm. Pods are nearly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 cm, 2-winged along sutures. The peas can be boiled and eaten, and this speci...

* Botanical name :Cardiospermum halicacabum *Family: Sapindaceae *Location: Khalilabad Sant Kabir Nagar Uttar Pradesh India *Date - 26-03-2022 Common name: Balloon Vine, Love-in-a-puff, heart pea, heartseed • Assamese: কপাল ফুটা লতা kapaal phuta lata • Hindi: कानफूटा kanphuta, कपालफोड़ी kapalphodi • The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia' records that other common names for Cardiospermum halicacabum were "Heart seed”, “heart pea”, or “winter cherry”. It is one among the "Ten Sacred Flowers of Kerala", collectively known as dasapushpam. The generic name Cardiospermum, which translates to "heart seeds", was given due to its large, black seeds, the white mark of which is reminiscent of a stylized heart. The specific epithet halicacabum comes from the Greek word for salt barrel and refers to the inflated fruits, after which the common name balloon vine is derived. The balloon vine is a strongly overgrown, per...

*Helitropium indicum  *Family :Boraginaceae *Location:  Khalilabad in Sant Kabir Nagar Uttar Pradesh India hee-lee-oh-TROH-pee-um -- from the Greek helios (sun) and trope (turning) IN-dih-kum or in-DEE-kum -- of or from India ... Dave's Botanary commonly known as: erysipelas plant, Indian heliotrope, Indian turnsole, scorpion weed, wild clary • Bengali: হাতিসুর hatisura • Gujarati: હાથી સૂંઢરા hathi-sundhara • Hindi: हाथाजोड़ी hathajori • Kannada: ಚೆಳುಬಾಲದ ಗಿಡ chelubalada gida, ಚೆಳುಮಣಿ ಗಿಡ chelumani gida • Konkani: ajeru • Malayalam: തേക്കട thekkada • Manipuri: leihenbi • Marathi: भुरुंडी bhurundi • Nepalese: हात्ति सुंडे झार hatti sunde jhar • Oriya: hati-sand •  Tribals have been reported to be widely used as anti-abortificent in women with habitual miscarriages, to treat anemia of pregnancy , skin disorders such as ring worm or bites and I have seen urban poor use the leaf juice on swelling from insect bites. Heliotropium indicum L. (family: Bora...

*Botanical name: Chrozophora rottleri *Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family) *Location : Khalilabad in Sant Kabir Nagar Uttar Pradesh India Common name: Suryavarti, Rottler's Chrozophora • Hindi: शदेवी shadevi • Marathi: सुर्यवर्ती suryavarti • Tamil: Purapirakkai Suryavarti is an erect herb with silvery hairs. Lower part of stem is naked, upper part hairy. It has slender tap-root. Leaves are stalked, 3.5-9.5 cm long, 2.3-8 cm wide, ovate to circular, with wavy margin. The leaves are densely hairy on both sides. Flowers are small, yellowish. Male flowers petals ovate. Female flowers sepals triangular, acute. Fruit is a capsule. Flowering: February-August. Medicinal uses: In Nepal, juice of the fruit is given in cases of cough and colds consult Doctor before use. By Shivam Maddhesiya