Geranium Family ( Geraniaceae)

Geranium Family ( Geraniaceae)

  We are all familiar with garden balsams and geranium, well known for variegated flowers, often double under cultivation. Many species of balsams occur in the Himalaya and besides the common trifoliate oxalis species with yellow and rose colored flowers others  common in grassy meadows include Geranium collinum and Geranium pretense with large purple flowers, growing as prostrate, much branched boary herbs, with orbicular leaves, often 3-9 partite up to 3600m.

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 A high grassy meadow at an elevation of about 4000m, strewn with masses of purple geraniums and some white flowers of Inula.

                                       Geranium lambertii at 3300m

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