| Alpine Ground Daisy |
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| File size | 623421 |
| Original date | 8/24/14 2:01 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 290.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1600s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Allardia nivea Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Waldheimia nivea
Synonyms: Waldheimia nivea
Alpine Ground Daisy is a perennial herb, hairy with
dense appressed gray-white hairs. Rhizome is prostrate, woody, much
branched. Stems are many, erect, with dense woolly leaves. Leaves are
stalkless; leaf blade wedge-shaped, 4-8 x 1.5-2.5 mm, tip 3-lobed.
Flower-heads are borne singly at tip, shortly stalked. Involucre is
hemispheric, 8-11 mm in diameter; phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, below
woolly, margin narrowly brown scarious, outer and middle ones ovate to
oblong, 4-5 mm, inner ones inverted-lanceshaped, about 6 mm. Ray
florets are 17-20, red; blade oblong, 7-8 mm, tip 2-finely toothed.
Disk florets yellow, 5- or 6-lobed. Achenes about 1.2 mm, hairless,
with stalkless glands. Pappus many, bristlelike, pale yellow, about 2.5
mm. Alpine Ground Daisy is found in Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, West
Himalaya, at altitudes of 3900-5400 m. Flowering: July.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh, J.M. Garg | Photographed enroute to Khardung La, Ladakh. |
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