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Asthma Plant
Plate 1 of 7. (c) Jung, I-Chieh (榮翊傑), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Jung, I-Chieh (榮翊傑) · via iNaturalist

Asthma Plant

Euphorbia hirta

Euphorbia hirta (sometimes called asthma-plant) is a pantropical weed, possibly native to India. It is a hairy herb that grows in open grasslands, roadsides and pathways. It is widely used as a medicinal herb.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 131560.