Lilac tasselflower
சுவர் முள்ளங்கிമുയൽച്ചെവിയൻ
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Emilia, Cupid's shaving brush
Formerly Cacalia sonchifolia, Crassocephalum sonchifolium
When it flowers
Flowers November to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Old WorldKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 41 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, orange, red, pink, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- pincel, Huye-que-te-cojo, Yerba socialista
- Chinese
- 一點紅, 一点红, 羊蹄草
- Portuguese
- Serralhinha, Flor-pincel
- Chinese (China)
- 一点红
- Finnish
- valvattiemilia
- Japanese
- ウスベニニガナ
- Indonesian
- Tempuh Wiyang
- Thai
- หูปลาช่อน
- Russian
- Эмилия осотолистная
- root
- Kemendhilan
- French
- Émilie à feuilles de laîteron, Petit lastron, Goutte de sang
- Simplified Chinese
- 一点红, 羊蹄草, 叶下红
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Emilia sonchifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.