| Northern Nettle |
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| File size | 646626 |
| Original date | 9/17/11 11:31 AM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 11.3mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 4.0 |
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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: Urtica hyperborea Family: Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Synonyms: Urtica kunlunshanica
Synonyms: Urtica kunlunshanica
Northern Nettle is an undershrub, up to 50 cm
tall, velvet-hairy, sparingly covered with stinging hairs. Leaves are
carried 0.4-2 cm long stalks. Leaf bade is ovate or broadly
ovate-round, 1-4.5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm broad, somewhat heart-shape or
flat at the base, margin toothed, tip pointed. Stipules are
ovate-oblong, fused, 4-6 mm long. Flowers are borne in panicle of cymes
in leaf axils, longer than leaf-stalks. Flowers are greenish-purple.
Sepals circular, not armed hairy, enlarged in fruit. Seed-pods are
oblong-ovate, about 2 mm long. Northern Nettle is found in Pakistan,
Indian Himalayas, Tibet, from 3000-6000 m. Flowering: May-August.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed enroute to Khardung la, Ladakh. |