Plant Diversity of India

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Insectivorous Plants

Insectivorus Plants	Notes
Droseraor Sundew	has tentacels on leaves, capable of curdling milks, used to apply on blisters dyeing silk.
Nepenthes	uses pitfall traps, aka pitcher plants, found in NE hills used to treat cholera and urinary troubles, eye drops.
Adlrovanda	traps with haris on leaves, aquatic plant found in salt marshes of Sunderbans
Utricularia or Bladderworts	found in waterlogged areas used to treating coughs, dressing wounds and urinary disease
Pingicuila or Butterworts	Found in alpine regions, it leaves acts as traps.

Invasive Plants

Invasive Flora	Nativity	Notes
Needle Bush	South America	Found throughout creates close thickets
Black Wattle	South East Australia	In Western Ghats regenerates quickly agter fires
Goat Weed	Tropical America	Throughout found in gardens, fields, forests
Prickly Poppy	Central and South America	Aggressive colonizer common in winter and in scrub land
Palmyra/Toddy Palm	Tropical Africa	cultivated and self sown found near scrub and waste land
Calotropis/Madar	Trop Africa	Throughout cultivated in srcub/ waste land
Datura/Mad Plant	Trop America	Aggressive colonizer a type of weed
Water Hyacinth	Trop America	Found in still or slow floating waters
Balsam	Trop America	throughout it is common along streams of moist forests
Pink Morning Glory	Trop America	Common weed found in marshy land
Black Mimosa	North America	Himalaya, Western Ghats, invades water courses and flooded wetlands
Touch me not	Brazil	Commom weed of cultivated fields, scrub lands and degraded forest
Congress Grass	North America	overgrazed pastures, waste lands and gardens
Townsend graa	Trop West Asia	Common along streams and banks
Mesquite	Mexico	Common weed of waste lands, scrubs etc.

Medicinal Plants

Medicinal Plants	Properties
Kondaitha	Peninsular India, male cones used for rheumatoid artheritis, fire resistance
Blue Vanda	North East, used to produce interspecific and intergeneric hybrids
Kuth/ Pushkarmoola	Kashmir, Himacha P, use as anit inflammatory, pesticides
Ladies Slipper Orchid	treat anxiety/insomnia, relief for muscular pain
Red Vanda	NE, decorative use
Sarpagandha aka Rauvolfia	Himalayas, central nervous system disorders, dysentry etc.
Ceropegia	used as ornamental plants
Emodi	Himalayas, is toxic and irritant to skin
Tree Ferns	food source, source of starch
Cyads	Throughout, could be used to treat Lytico Bodig disease
Elephants Foot	produces diosgenin uused as a steriod.