| Salvia-Leaved Catmint |
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| File size | 144115 |
| Original date | 9/15/11 1:29 PM |
| Resolution | 1010 x 775 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1250s |
| Aperture | 5.0 |
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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: Nepeta leucolaena Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Nepeta royleana, Nepeta salviifolia, Nepeta stewartii
Synonyms: Nepeta royleana, Nepeta salviifolia, Nepeta stewartii
Salvia-Leaved Catmint is a slender branched densely
white-woolly perennial herb, with stems up to 1-2 ft tall. Flowers are
borne either in long interrupted spikes up to a foot long, or in
branched clusters. Flowers are lilac or white. about 1.5 cm long.
Flower-tube is very slender, more than twice as long as calyx. Petals
are small, 6 mm across. Sepal tube is 6 mm long, with triangular sepals
much shorter than the tube. Bracts are linear-lanceshaped. Leaves are
shortly stalked, 1.5-4 cm long, oblong to narrow-ovate, thick, wrinkled
above and densely white-woolly beneath. Salvia-Leaved Catmint is found
in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to Kashmir, at altitudes of 2400-3600
m. Flowering: July-September.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed near Hemis Monastery, Ladakh. |