Common name: Suckering Mazus
Botanical name: Mazus surculosus Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family) Synonyms: Mazus harmandii
Suckering Mazus is perennial herb with small beautiful flowers which are
pale blue or white. It produces sucker like runners. Flowers are tubular, 6-12 mm long, in short clusters
arising directly from the root stalk. Flowers are 2-lipped, the upper lib
darker, blue or violet, with two triangular lobes. The lower lip is much
larger, white or pale blue, with rounded lobes and the throat with two
prominent orange swellings within. Sepals are triangular blunt. Basal
leaves are broadly inverted-egg shaped, rounded toothed, 2.5-8 cm,
sometimes pinnately lobed near the base. The leaves are narrowed near the
base to a short leaf-stalk. Flowering stems are mostly 6-8 cm.
Flowering: April-July.
| Photographed around McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh. |
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