Scurvy weed - Commelina cyanea

Common Name :	Scurvy weed.
Binomial Name :	Commelina cyanea
Family :	Commelinaceae
Bangla Name :	Kanchura, Kanchira.
Photo Taken :	Bangladesh

The name of this very tinny grass flower is Kanchura in Bangla. Possible common names are scurvy weed, Asian day flower, etc. Botanical name is Commelina cyanea and from the plant family Commelinaceae. Actually I'm confused about the botanical name, there is another species called Commelina benghalensis which is almost similar to this one, but having the third petal is whitish.





This is an interesting weed plant that has a nice colored flower. Basically it's a grass which grows around our paddy fields and sometimes around the cool and wet places. In Bangladesh this is an annoying weed plant for our farmers but not that much hard to eradicate like other noxious weeds. This annual herbaceous plant basically spreads over the ground. Leafs of this plant are lens like elliptic shaped.

Scurvy weed (Commelina cyanea) has a very tinny flower which is blue in color. We use to see this grass at the roadside around paddy fields. You can only notice there is something blue flower exists. It is hard to notice the petals if you don't observe closely. This blue flower has three petals and possibly six yellow filaments over the different stamens.





Photos for this article were taken from Rajkandi during my tour at September 2011 and from Jamalpur during December 2015. In Bangladesh this plant is known as Kanchura (কানচুরা), Kanchira (কানচিরা).


This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog https://icflora.blogspot.com/