| Narrow-Leaf Chickweed |
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| Original date | 4/13/12 5:33 PM |
| Resolution | 2000 x 1333 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 22.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 550D |
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Botanical name: Pseudostellaria webbiana Family: Caryophyllaceae (Carnation family)
Synonyms: Stellaria webbiana, Leucostemma webbianum
Synonyms: Stellaria webbiana, Leucostemma webbianum
Narrow-Leaf Chickweed is slender, creeping herb, 15-30
cm long, hairless or sparsely white-hairy. Stems are 4-angular,
branched. Leaves are stalkless, linear, acicular, 8-16 mm long,
spreading, rigid, shiny, 1-nerved. Flowers are borne in leaf-axils,
nearly erect, white; flower-stalks capillary, 2.5-5 cm long. Sepals 4,
lanceshaped. tapering at tip, 5-7 mm long, broadly scarious-margined,
shiny. Petals are 2-fid up to middle, 1.0-1.1 cm long with narrow blunt
lobes. Stamens are 8, styles 2. Capsules are ovoid, 6-valved, equalling
sepals; seeds compressed, 0.8 - 1 mm in diameter, pale brown, papillate
along margins. Narrow-Leaf Chickweed is found in Temperate Himalayas, in
Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Nepal and Afghanistan. Flowering:
April.
| Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh | Photographed near Naukuchia Tal & Chakrata, Uttarakhand. |
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