Common Name : Para Cress Flower

It is an erect herb, 1–4ft high. Stems hardly too much branched, bristly-hairy. Leaves are elliptic to ovate, to 12cm long, to 8cm wide, base wedge-shaped, margins serrate-crenate, tip sharp, 3-veined from base, bristly-hairy. Flower heads are slightly elongated bell-shaped. The green part is 1 cm long. Ray florets are whitish, 3–5 in number, irregularly 3-parted, 1–1.6mm long. Disc florets whitish, 5-parted, 3.6mm long. Achenes are narrowly obovoid, 3–5mm long - pappus of 1–3 weak bristles to 1mm long, on the edge of a shallow cup.