Anchusa Lungwort is perennial herb up to about
50 cm tall with softly hairy parts. Flowers are bright blue,
funnel-shaped, with triangular blunt petals, clustered at the ends of
slender, branched stem, and with narrow lanceshaped, silvery-grey
leaves. Flowers are about 1.2 cm long, wider at the throat, style
protruding, stamens inside, sepals oblong-blunt, very woolly-haired,
usually half as long as the flower. Leaves are covered with prostrate
greyish hairs, the lower long-stalked, about 20 cm, the upper narrower,
much smaller, stalkless. Anchusa Lungwort is found in the
Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Himachal Pradesh, at altitudes of
2100-3600 m. Common in Lahaul and Ladakh.
Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Nongthombam Ullysess
Photographed in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh.
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