| Long-Bract Catmint |
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| File size | 549607 |
| Original date | 8/24/14 1:12 PM |
| Resolution | 0 x 0 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 50.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| 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: Nepeta longibracteata Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Glechoma longibracteata
Synonyms: Glechoma longibracteata
Long-Bract Catmint is a more or less clump-forming,
lemon-scented perennial herb with a creeping rootstock. Stems are
spreading to prostrate, up to 15 cm long. Leaves are obovate to
inverted-lanceshaped, about 8 mm long, with a narrowly wedge-shaped
base and boldly toothed tip, grey woolly. Flowers are about 1 cm or
more long, curved, violet-blue with darker spots, mixed with long,
lanceshaped, often purple bracts, borne in dense rounded to ovoid
heads. Long-Bract Catmint is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to
Himachal Pradesh, on screes and stony slopes at 4400-4800 m altitudes.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju, Krishan Lal | Photographed enroute to Khardung La, Ladakh. |
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