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Common name: Violet Dandelion, च्याते Chyate
Botanical name: Cicerbita macrorhiza Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
These beautiful violet flowers look like dandelions. A perennial plant with
thick woody root-stock, and tufted, branched, prostrate stems upto 60 cm,
sometimes 10 cm or less. Leaves are variable, pinnately lobed, again like
dandelions. Lobes usually rounded. Flower heads mauve blue, 1.3-2 cm across,
often drooping, in branched terminal domed clusters.
| Photographed in Valley of Flowers, Uttaranchal. |
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