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Rosy Motherwort
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Rosy Motherwort
P Native Photo: Prashant Awale
Common name: Rosy Motherwort
Botanical name: Leonurus royleanus    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca var. royleana

Rosy Motherwort is a perennial herb with erect, 4-edged stem. Leaves are long-stalked, mostly 5-nerved, ovate, long-pointed, sharply toothed, somewhat 3-5-lobed, velvet-hairy above. Flowers are borne in many-flowered whorls which are clearly separated. Bracts are spine-tipped, almost equal to the sepals. Sepals are spine-tipped, diverging. Flowers are hairy, pinkish, upper lip like a hood, hairy, lower lip spreading, mid-lobe entire. Rosy Motherwort is native Western Himalaya.

Identification credit: Tabish Photographed at Guntarao Camp site, GHNP, Himachal Pradesh.

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