| Fringed Campion |
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| File size | 177698 |
| Original date | 8/14/06 12:56 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/71s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Silene edgeworthii Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Silene indica var. edgeworthii, Lychnis fimbriata, Agrostemma fimbriatum
Synonyms: Silene indica var. edgeworthii, Lychnis fimbriata, Agrostemma fimbriatum
Fringed Campion is a perennial herb, up to 55
cm tall. Stems are usually simple, erect, greyish-green, minutely
velvety to rough. Leaves are 2.2-7 cm long, 0.5-3 cm wide, variable in
size and shape. Uppermost ones are smaller, middle stem and basal
leaves are linear-lanceshaped to inverted-lanceshaped or ovate
lanceshaped, stalked, membranous, minutely velvety. Flowers are borne
in lax dichotomously branched cymes, white inside, pale purplish to
reddish-brown on the outside, usually looking down when young.
Flower-stalks are velvety. Sepal cup is 1.2-2 cm long, inflated,
membranous, oblong to spherical, minutely velvety to glandular, with
prominent nerves. Nerves are many, green to greenish-brown. Sepals are
pointed or blunt margin minutely ciliate. Petals are frilly at the
tips. Capsule equals or barely exceeds the sepal cup. Seeds are about
1.1 mm long, kidney-shaped, black. Fringed Campion is found in NW
and W Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon up to 2700 m. Flowering:
June-July.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed on Govindghat-Ghangria route & Mussoorie-Chakrata Road, Uttarakhand. |
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