Purple-Stamen Meadow-Rue is a much branched perennial
herb 20-80 cm tall, with flowers small, greenish-white, usually in
large lax much-branched clusters, borne on flexuous leafy stems 60-120
cm. Petals are about 5 mm, stamens twice as long, filaments purple
thread-like, anthers slender. Leaves are several times divided into
stalked oval leaflets less than 1.3 cm wide, with rounded or
wedge-shaped base and few rounded or pointed teeth. Achenes are
short-stalked, flattened, 3-ribbed on each side, with a slender curved
beak. Purple-Stamen Meadow-Rue is found in shrubberies, open slopes in
the Himalayas, from Pakistan to SW China at altitudes of 2400-4200 m.
Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju, Sunit Singh
Photographed in Kanchani Khal, Uttarakhand.
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