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Crotalaria verrucosa

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Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Common name: Jhanjhania, Bansan(Beng.) blue-flower rattlepod, purple popbush, shack-shack, tooth-leaf rattlepod (Eng.).
Life cycle: Annual
Native Range: Native of Asia now widely naturalized in the tropics.

Crotalaria verrucosa is a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the bean family. It is a branched annual herb, 50-100 cm high. Branches are acute and angled. Ovate to traiangular leaves are 5-15 cm long. Flowers in axillary clusters or few-floweredracemes, 2-6 flowers, Inflorescences racemes.