Indian 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 divided into two
lobes, but are not frilly, in contrast to
Edgeworth's Campion. Capsule
equals or barely exceeds the sepal cup. Seeds are about 1.1 mm long,
kidney-shaped, black. Edgeworth's Campion is found in NW and W
Himalayas, from Kashmir to Kumaon up to 3000 m. Flowering: June-July.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Valley of Flowers & Chakrata, Uttarakhand.
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