Himalayan Flowers
Buttercup Family
The buttercup family Ranunculaceae, includes some of the
most delicate and beautiful Himalayan flowers like anemone, larkspur marsh
marigold monkshood, columbine trollius, pulsatilla, marsh marigold, monkshood
columbine trollius, pulsatilla, etc. many of these are indeed familiar garden
plants in temperate land and in hill in Nepal.
Trollius acaulis with
horizontal stout underground rootstock densely clothed with dry bases of old
petioles and palmate leaves flowers solitary, with sepals 5-10 or more , golden
yellow and petaloid, the petals are minute and also yellow blooms at 3300-4500m.
A grassymeadow, near a melt- water stream at elevations of
3900-4200m, crowded with masses of bright yellow flowers of buttercup caltha
palustris waving madly in the cold, dry bitter wind.
A beautiful masaic
mainly Anemone obtusiloba, 3200m.
Ranunculus sp at
3600m in full bloom, close to the ground in summer.
Ranunculus with
bright yellow flowers, at an elevation of 4200m the sepals are colored yellow
like the petals, which are themselves absent.
A single creamy white
coloured flower of buttercup at an elevation of 3600m
A single bright
yellow coloured flower of buttercup at an elevation of 4200m
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