| Tuberous Catmint |
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| Original date | 4/1/21 6:33 PM |
| Resolution | 4000 x 1844 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.74mm |
| Exposure time | 1/33s |
| Aperture | 1.79 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Xiaomi |
| Camera model | Redmi Note 7 Pro |
| Sensor type | MonochromeArea |
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Botanical name: Nepeta raphanorhiza Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Glechoma raphanorhiza
Synonyms: Glechoma raphanorhiza
Tuberous Catmint is a perennial herb, with fleshy
walnut-sized tubers. Flowers are purple blue, tube slender, about twice
as long as sepal-cup. Sepal-cup is about 4 mm; teeth fine-pointed,
fringed with hairs, shorter than tube. Bracts are ovate to lanceshaped,
as long as sepal-cup. Flowers are borne in ovoid, interrupted spikes
less than 2.5 cm. Stems are numerous, spreading or rising up 15-45 cm
tall, finely velvet-hairy basally, slightly sticky, unbranched or
branched. Leaf-stalks are about half as long as blade. Leaf blade is
broadly ovate to ovate-heart-shaped, 1.2-2.5 x 1.2-2.5 cm, hirtellous,
base flat, margin sawtoothed-rounded toothed, tip somewhat blunt.
Tuberous Catmint is found thickets along streams, in E. Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Kashmir, W Himalaya. Flowering: June-July.
| Identification credit: Shakir Ahmad | Photographed in Kashmir. |
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