Lamiaceae FAMILY
Leucas lavandulifolia
Leucas lavandulifolia
Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Leucas lavandulifolia is an erect, annual plant with much-branched stems 30 - 80cm tall[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is sometimes cultivated in home gardens for use in local medicine and as a pot herb[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeE. Asia - China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia to New Guinea.
HabitatA weed of open waste places, coconut and other plantations, roadsides, grassland and arable land, fallow land, paddy dams, locally often numerous; at elevations from sea-level to 1,500 metres[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ].