| Hairy-Leaved Milk-Vetch |
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| File size | 264867 |
| Original date | 9/14/11 12:55 PM |
| Resolution | 1200 x 900 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/320s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Astragalus confertus Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Hairy-Leaved Milk-Vetch is a high altitude
Himalayan herb with turf-like stems covered with prostrate white hairs.
Leaf are imparipinnately compound, about 6-15 mm long, with 11-15
leaflets about 1.5-3 mm long, 1 mm broad, oblong, densely white-woolly,
with lanceshaped stipules. Flowers are borne in stalked 1-7-flowered
racemes in leaf axils. Stalks carrying the racemes are about 2.5-5 cm
long, velvety, hairs appressed, black and white, silky. Bracts and
flower-stalks are small. Sepal cup is 4-5 mm long, velvety, with
prostrate hairs, mostly black, teeth about 1.5-2.0 mm long. Flowers are
lilac or purple. Standard petal is 9 mm long, wing about 8-10 mm long,
keel about 8-10 mm long. Fruit is velvety, few seeded, with a short
stipe. Hairy-Leaved Milk-Vetch is found in the Himalayas, from Kashmir
to Nepal and Tibet, at altitudes of 4000-6000 m.
Flowering: July-September.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed at Chusul, Ladakh. |