OBNOXIOUS PLANTS AND WEEDS OF DISTRICT LAKHIMPUR KHERI AND IN ADJACENT AREAS OF U.P. INDIA

Abstract

In this present study, the paper innumerate 101 Obnoxious Angiospermic plants those are growing in District Lakhimpur Kheri and the adjacent areas. In this survey total district area was studied and collected the information of the Obnoxious Angiospermic plants that are grown, wild, planted, cultivated & naturalized of road sides, park avenues and gardens in the area. Since a great change has been seen within last 05 years in the wild and cultivated species. That there are some plants those not eaten by animals. Therefore, there is a great need for a complete study conducted on the obnoxious plants. The plants were identified with the help of different published flora and herbarium lodged in different places of India. A survey of Obnoxious plants and Weeds was conducted for 5 year (2010-2015), during the study period it has been put in mind that no place should be missed because every and each place is highly valuable and important to collect and record new plant species. The progressive and repeated Botanical survey in understanding of the flora of a region gives an uptodate information about plants growing in that area. The critical review of a literature reveals that the work on an Angiospermic flora covering district Lakhimpur Kheri was under taken by various workers in the past viz. Hooker (1872-1879), Duthei (1903-1929). But the survey was on all type of Angiospermic plants. Now it has been taken in mind that how many Obnoxious plants are growing in Lakhimpur Kheri district and adjacent areas.