| Tartary Locoweed |
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| File size | 173546 |
| Original date | 6/21/16 11:38 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3456 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 46.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/640s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Oxytropis tatarica Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Tartary Locoweed is a perennial herb with root thick
and woody. Flowers are borne in stalked heads, carried on
flower-cluster-stalks about 1.5-10 cm, bracts about 3-3.5 mm long,
grey-hairy; nearly stalkless. Flowers are blue or yellow rarely purple
or keel tipped with purple. Vexillum is about 7-9 mm long, about 3-3.5
mm broad; wing about 6.5-7 mm long; keel about 6 mm long. Sepal-cup is
densely hairy, hairs black and white, about 5 mm long, teeth about 2
mm. Aerial stem is absent or much reduced. Leaves are stipulate,
densely hairy, hairs white. Leaves are imparipinnately compound, about
2.5-5.0 cm, grey-hairy; leaf-stalk about 1.3-2.5 cm; leaflets opposite,
stalkless, about 3-7 mm long, about 2-3.5 mm wide, oblong or
inverted-lanceshaped-oblong, entire, with a short sharp point. Fruits
are inflated, about 1 cm long, about 7-8 mm broad, roundish, covered
with white spreading hairs. Tartary Locoweed is found in Kashmir,
Ladakh, Tibet; Nepal; India, N.Punjab, W. Turkistan. Flowering:
June-September.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed at Changla Pass, Ladakh. |
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