Saluting every life with a flower each day! Flowers are soul of the planet, blooming to play music with silent notes. Smile at them as they are sweet hearted!! Only the photographs taken by me are uplinked. I lean heavily to http://www.flowersofindia for flower identification and descriptions. Looking forward to valuable comments and suggestions.
American mint, the aggressive rigid annual herb is native to the American continent. Stem is quadrate and bears hairs. The copious blue flowers are small and two lipped. A large number of pollinators help in the production of large number of seeds. The plant is used in the treatment for diarrhea and also it is found that the plant is effective as insecticide. I have observed this plant all along the road sides of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. I used this plant extract for my research work in the field of sericulture. Along with my friend i collected this plant for herbarium. Now it is available in plenty all along Mysore and i took this photograph in the CSRTI, Mysore campus on 3rd September, 2011.
