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Ornamental - It is used as a garden plant.
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Thrives in valleys, waste areas, slopes, roadsides, wet grounds, grassy places, field margins, at an elevation of 1200-1600 m.
It is annual or biennial herb usually hairless or rarely sparsely velvet-hairy when young about 10-30 cm tall.
Stem is erect or ascending, leafy, simple or much branched from the base and above.
Leaves are variable depending on location on the stem. Basal leaves (wither before flowering): Obovate-inverted-lanceshaped, 2-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, margins irregularly toothed with lobes, stalkes. Lower and middle stem leaves: Smaller than basal, eared base (sometimes), margins irregularly toothed, 1-4 lateral lobes, becoming larger towards tip, short to no stalk. Upper stem leaves: Lance-shaped to oblong, entire or sawtooth margins, pointed to tapering tip, stalkless.
Flowers are yellow, borne in many-flowered racemes (clusters). Racemes 6-10 cm long, elongating in fruit. Individual flowers on erect, slender stalks. Sepals: 4, erect, linear-oblong . Petals: Mostly absent, or 4 small yellow petals, shorter than sepals. Stamens: 6, rarely 4.
Fruit is splitting pod, linear cylindrical in shape.
Flowering and Fruiting: throughout the year.