| Pointed Toadflax |
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| File size | 129058 |
| Original date | 7/9/13 5:32 PM |
| Resolution | 900 x 675 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Kickxia elatine subsp. crinita Family: Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Synonyms: Linaria crinita, Antirrhinum elatinoides, Linaria bombycina
Synonyms: Linaria crinita, Antirrhinum elatinoides, Linaria bombycina
Pointed Toadflax is a trailing perennial herb, hairy
with white hairs. Leaves are 1-2 cm long, ovate, rounded or bluntly
arrow-shaped at base; leaf-stalk 1/4 as long as blade. Flowers are
borne in leaf-axils on flower-stalks up to 1.8 cm long. Sepals are
ovate-lanceshaped 3-4 mm long. Flower are deeper yellow, lower lip deep
crimson or purple, spur curved forwards, as long as rest of flower.
Capsules are 3 mm long, splitting by abscission plate of most of
external wall of each cell. Seeds are 1 mm long. Pointed Toadflax is
native to S. Europe, W Asia and Kashmir.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed in Pampore, Kashmir. |
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