| White Leaved Catmint |
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| File size | 94831 |
| Original date | 10/22/09 9:09 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSLR-A100 |
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Botanical name: Nepeta leucophylla Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
White Leaved Catmint is a hairy, slender-stemmed perennial herb, with
small lilac or blue flowers in an interrupted spike, with at least the
lower whorls distinctly stalked and widely separated. Flowers are 1-1.2
cm, hairy, twice as long as the hairy sepal cup. The linear-lanceshaped
sepals are shorter than the sepal cup. Leaves are stalked, heart-shaped,
2-4 cm long, blunt tipped, with rounded teeth on the margin, wrinkled
above, and silvery haired on the underside. The plant has branched stem
2-3 ft tall. White Leaved Catmint is found on open slopes of drier areas
of Himalayas, from Himachal Pradesh to Nepal, at altitudes of 2400-3600 m. Flowering: July-October.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. |