Stewart Campion is a slender, grass-like herb with
flowering stems slender, 15-25 cm high, hairy below, sticky-woolly
above. It is named for John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Bute, 18th century
British politician. Leaves are narrow, linear to lanceshaped, 2.5-5.5 x
0.15-0.2 cm, recurved along margins, spreading, keeled by a stout
midnerve. Flowers are few, solitary in the upper leaf axils or in
opposite pairs, nodding. Flower-stalks are velvet-hairy with 2 linear
bracteoles in upper part. Calyx is oblong, 8-10 mm long, membranous,
velvet-hairy; nerves green, faint, free or united or teeth rounded,
scarious with long curved cilia along margins. Petals are
inverted-heart-shaped, white; limb 2-partile, very short, recurved;
claw very broad, eared a little longer than calyx. Styles are 3, very
short. Carpophore densely woolly. Capsules longer than calyx. Stewart
Campion is found in alpine Himalayas, above 2700 m, and is endemic to
Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Flowering: July-August.
Identification credit: Varun Sharma
Photographed in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh.
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