| Woolly Speedwell |
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| File size | 376611 |
| Original date | 11/30/02 12:00 AM |
| Resolution | 2736 x 3648 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 42.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/100s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
| Camera model | E-410 |
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Botanical name: Veronica lanosa Family: Plantaginaceae (Isabgol family)
Synonyms: Veronica rupestris
Synonyms: Veronica rupestris
Woolly Speedwell is an erect perennial herb with
usually many flowering stems, with paired narrow-elliptic stalkless
leaves, and with branch-end spike-like clusters of blue flowers.
Flowers are about 1.2 cm across, petals round or wider than long;
sepals narrow-elliptic, blunt, hairy, fringed with hairs, 4 mm,
enlarging in fruit. Bracts are oblong, the upper shorter than the
flower-stalks. Inflorescence axis and flower-stalks are hairy or
glandular hairy. Leaves are 1-4 cm, narrowed to a blunt tip, toothed,
almost hairless; stems 15-40 cm. Capsules are ellipsoid about 6 mm.
Woolly Speedwell is native to NE Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, West
Himalaya, Xinjiang (China), at altitudes of 2400-3600 m. Flowering:
June-August.
| Identification credit: Akhtar Malik | Photographed in Gulmarg, Kashmir. |
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