Kapum Keeriya Euphobia hirta

Common name: Kapum keeriya
Scientific Name: Euphobia hirta
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Life cycle: Annual

Morphology:

Stem: Erect, herbacious plant. 5–11cm long, 3 - 5 mm in diameter
Usually,Unbranched, rarely 3- to 5-branched; stems simple, hispid
Roots: mainly taproot and fibrous roots

Leaves:

opposite, lanceolate-oblong, oblong-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate,
1 - 5 cm long, 5 - 13 mm wide,
apex acuminate or obtuse,
base slightly oblique, serrulate or entire, green adaxially, grey-green abaxially, sometimes, with purple spots, pubescent on both surfaces, dense so veins abaxially; petioles 1 - 2 mm long

Flowers : Inflorescences axillary, composed into cymes 1 - 2 on 4 - 15 mm long stalk; peduncles pubescent involucres. campanulate, pubescent, margins 5- lobed, lobes triangular-ovate; glands 4, subcupular, with appendages at margins; male flowers several.

Propagation:

Propagation by seeds.

Agricultural usage/importance:

It competes for sunlight, moisture, and besides soil nutrients with crops.
Uses : All parts are used as medicine for dysentery, enteritis, skin eczema, diminish skin inflammation.
Control measures:
Hand weeding and mechanical weeding using mammoties.