Snowball Plant plant looks like a wooly snow-ball. It is a densely white- or
grey-wooly more or less globular high altitude plant. Stem 10-20 sm, stout,
hollow, enlarged club-shaped and densely leafy above, base covered with black
shining leaf bases. Leaves linear, coarsely toothed or lobed, embedded in
dense wooly hairs. Flower-heads purple, cylindrical 1.3-2 cm long, deeply
embedded in woolly hairs and densely clustered at the top of the stem. Snowball Plant is native to the Himalayas, and found at altitudes of 4300-5600 m.
Medicinal uses: The wool of this herb is applied to cuts, where
it sticks compactly, seals the wound, and stops the bleeding.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Paddar Valley, Kashmir & enrote to Roopkund, Himachal Pradesh.
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