Common name
English: Purple witchweed
English: Purple witchweed
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)
Order: Scrophulariales (79)
Family: Orobanchaceae (15)(family description)
Genus: Striga (2)
Epithet: hermonthica (Del.) Benth. (1)
hermonthica => refers to the town of Armant (known in Greek as Hermonthis, located about 12 miles south of Thebes, in Egypt)
Climate: sub-tropical, tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: violet
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