Bhutan Rhodiola is a perennial herb, 7-35 cm tall,
with few stems. Flowers are red to black-purple, in large leafy,
flat-topped, branched, often lax clusters, carried on top of leafy
stems with broad ovate to elliptic leaves. Petals are lanceshaped,
twice as long as the sepals. Leaves are 1.3-5 cm long, entire to
remotely toothed, often with a heart-shaped or eared base. Bhutan
Rhodiola is found in the Himalayas, in Pakistan, Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim,
Bhutan, Myanmar and SW China, at altitudes of 2750-3700 m. Flowering:
July-September.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal, J.M. Garg
Photographed in the Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand.
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