Plant

Herb-of-Grace

Bacopa monnieri

हिन्दी: ब्राह्मी

Herb-of-Grace (Bacopa monnieri) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj — Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name: Bacopa monnieri
Hindi name: ब्राह्मी
Family: Plantaginaceae, order Lamiales
Group: Plant

A creeping water herb with tiny pale flowers.

Spot it Fleshy rounded leaves and small pale flowers.
Home Wet ground and pond edges.
Food web Tiny insects visit the flowers.
Why it matters Stabilises wet mud and shelters small pond life.

Read more: Bacopa monnieri on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2008, in Jaipur.^[20]

Sources

Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
Wikidata (Hindi labels for species) (database). Open data, used for Hindi common names.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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