Botanical name: Dracocephalum nutans    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Dracocephalum alpinum, Zornia nutans, Ruyschiana nutans

Nodding Dragonhead is a perennial herb 16-55 cm tall with blue to blue-lilac flower borne in many-flowered whorls forming a long branch-end spike 10-15 cm. Flowers are about 1.5 cm long, horizontal or drooping, with a slender flower-tube; upper lip of flower oblong, deeply notched, lower lip longer with a rounded end lobe and small lateral lobes at base. Sepal-cup is often purple, with the upper lip broad and the lowest bristle-like; bracts leafy, ovate entire. Lower leaves are short-stalked, with elliptic to ovate-heart-shaped, coarsely toothed blade 1-2 cm, the upper leaves are stalkless. Stems are 4-angled, many, spreading, shortly hairy. Nodding Dragonhead is found in West Himalaya, northwards all the way to Siberia, at altitudes of 2700-4500 m. Flowering: June-September.

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