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Natural products from plant sources have been the basis of the treatment of various human disease. The use of herbal medicine becoming popular due to toxicity and side effects of allopathic medicines. Chromolaena odorata (L) King & Robinson is considered as weed plant and it is a perennial shrub belonging to the family Asteraceae. Clinical studies using aqueous extracts from Chromolaena leaves have shown various properties such as antimicrobial, wound healing, anti-diarrheal, astringent, antispasmodic, antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, and diuretic. In the present study, organoleptic and microscopic studies were done which is the basis for the identification and determination of adulterants for identify the potent crude drug. The fresh leaves of Chromolaena odorata were studied by organoleptic evaluation, proximate analysis, and florescence analysis of powdered drug. The present information on the pharmacognostic evaluation of the plant drug Chromolaena odorata serve the important information to the identity and to determine the quality and purity of the plant material in the future.