| Spoonleaf Forget-Me-Not |
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| File size | 283291 |
| Original date | 9/15/11 1:31 PM |
| Resolution | 1240 x 930 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Eritrichium spathulatum Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Eritrichium canum var. spathulatum, Echinospermum spathulatum
Synonyms: Eritrichium canum var. spathulatum, Echinospermum spathulatum
Spoonleaf Forget-Me-Not is a perennial herb, 15-25 cm
tall. Flowers are blue, bell-shaped-pinwheel-shaped; tube about as long
as sepals; appendages papillate; limb about 7 mm wide; petals nearly
round, 2-2.5 mm wide. Sepals are oblong to ovate, about 1.5 mm,
velvet-hairy outside, nearly hairless inside. Flower-stalks are up to 6
mm, sparsely velvet-hairy. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in several
flowered clusters with branches 2-3 cm, bracteate. Stems are clustered,
often prostrate, short branched above or not, sparsely short appressed
velvet-hairy. Leaf-stalks of basal leaves are 1-2 cm; leaf blade
spoon-shaped, 2-3 cm x 3-7 mm, below densely short appressed
velvet-hairy, above hairless or hairy, base narrowed, tip blunt. Stem
leaves are stalkless, spoon-shaped to inverted-lanceshaped. Spoonleaf
Forget-Me-Not is found on hillside meadows, at altitudes of 3600-3700
m, from NE Pakistan to W Himalaya to Tibet. Flowering: June-August.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg, Miroslav Dvorsky | Photographed near Hemis Monastary, Ladakh. |
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