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One of the prettiest Himalayan alpines, the Kumaon Iris is a common sight on alpine meadows, pasture lands and open slopes throughout our range.

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Silver-Leaved Cinquefoil is a beautiful Himalayan wildflower with clear yellow flowers and slivery strawberry-like leaves.

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imalayan Fragrant Orchid is a terrestrial orchid, growing to 1-2 ft tall. Tuberoids are palmately divided. The leafy stem are rather stout. Leaves 3-5, are large, erect, oblong, pointed, up to 12 cm long and 3.5 cm wide.

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Jacquemont's Ligularia is a shrub 4-5 ft tall. Stem is hairless, reddish brown, grooved. Leaves are broadly ovate-heart-shaped, blunt or somewhat pointed, sinuate, basally heart-shaped, hairless, basal leaves 18-30 x 15-20 cm long leaf-stal…

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Anemones don't have real petals, but have sepals which look like petals. This flower has four (also five) obovate-oblong sepals, which makes it look like clematis. It is a robust perennial with erect hairy stems growing up to 1-2.5 ft.

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Himalayan fenugreek is a perennial herb 20-60 cm,found on ravine shores or meadow by woods of the Himalayan valleys. Stem erect or ascending, terete, branching at base, yellow pubescent when young.

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Globe Primrose or Primula glomerata is distinguished by its compact spherical head of many blue flowers, carried on top of stem 10-30 cm tall.

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Nepal Thornsepal is a close cousin of the Whorlflower, but a much smaller plant. Flowering stems are only 8-15 cm high. Flowers are pinkish-purple, few in closely grouped whorls, forming a dense head at the top.

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Horned Lousewort, the curious species, inhabits tough and sometimes inaccessible areas of the Himalayan cold deserts.

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Meadow Geranium is a beautiful wildflower commonly found on open slopes in the Himalayas. It is easily confused with Himalayan Geranium. Erect hairy stems can grow to 25-150 cm tall.

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Five Finger Cinquefoil ( Potentilla cuneata) is a small spreading perennial herb with solitary yellow flowers 1.3-2.5 cm across, borne on short stems, and with leaves with 3 small obovate leaflets which are coarsely toothed at the tip.

flowers · river

This beautiful fragrant Primula grows close to water in spring-time alpine meadows that have abundant snow-melt.

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Himalayan Teasel is a robust perennial herb with opposite entire or palmately lobed leaves. The plant can be easily identified by its solitary round flower-heads on long, leafless, channeled flowering stems.

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Kashmir Mallow is a beautiful plant, endemic to Kashmir, which forms a large bush of slightly fuzzy ivy shaped leaves. Medium-sized single funnel-shaped flowers are produced from midsummer through fall in a clear pink shade.

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Frilly Bergenia is a perennial herb with flowers white, pink or purple, borne in a spreading or dense cluster, atop a up to 25 cm long stem. It can be easily identified by its large rounded basal leaves with untoothed bristly margins.

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Two Leaved Chirita is a perennial herb with erect stem up to 25 cm tall. The stem is leafless at the base during flowering, and has 2 unequal leaves above.

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Silver-Leaved Cinquefoil is a beautiful Himalayan wildflower with clear yellow flowers and slivery strawberry-like leaves.

Uttarakhand·flowers

One of the most stately and impressive species rhododendrons, Tree Rhododendron is the state tree of Uttarakhand. It is extremely variable in stature, hardiness, flower color and leaf characteristics.

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Mountain Angelica is a plant which has gone through many identification revisions. The plants is 2-3 m tall, with stout stem with ridges and grooves.

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River Anemone is an erect silky-haired perennial plant found on forest margins, grassy slopes, streamsides and lakesides in the Himalayas. It is 30-90 cm tall.

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Bristletips is a shrub to 2 m tall, with spreading, drooping branches. Leaves are elliptic acute, with 5-7 prominent parallel veins and numerous fine cross veins. Leaves have rusty star-shaped hairs beneath.

Himachal Pradesh·flowers

Long Tube Lousewort (Pedicularis longiflora) is a lousewort distinguished by its cluster of golden-yellow flowers at the top, often with dark brown or red markings, with very long slender flower-tubes, mostly 2-4 cm, sometimes more.

flowers · hills

The Sorrel is a wild shrub that grows on rock faces and walls, and has a lovely rust colour in the fall season. One can see a wild Rose shrub.