| Fescue Sandwort |
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| Original date | 8/11/12 12:42 PM |
| Resolution | 1000 x 750 |
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| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
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Botanical name: Eremogone festucoides Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Arenaria festucoides
Synonyms: Arenaria festucoides
Fescue Sandwort is a densely clustered plant with
bristle-like leaves, and short erect flowering stems with white
flowers, and prominent white-margined sepals. Petals are obovate, about
1.5 cm. Sepals are alnceshaped pointed, about 1 cm long. Flowering
stems are glandular hairy, 2.5-15 cm. Bracts have broad papery margins.
Leaves are shining, usually recurved, spine-tipped, 6-25 mm long.
Fescue Sandwort is found on rocks and stony ground in the Himalayas,
from Pakistan to Uttarakhand, at altitudes of 3000-4500 m. Flowering:
June-July.
| Identification credit: Prashant Awale, Gurcharan Singh | Photographed along Vasundhara falls, Uttarakhand. |
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