I am in agreement that this is a buckwheat (*Fagopyrum esculentum*) - widely cultivated in the Himalaya, especially in the higher inner valleys above 1800m the lowest part of Ladakh is some 2700m).
There are 3 buckwheats recorded from Ladakh. *F.tartaricum* (which has less conspicuous flower-clusters usually greenish flowers and nultes with rough faces & toothed wavy angles) is even hardier than the above species but of poorer quality; it may be cultivated up to 4000m. Klimes found it often escapes from cultivation, a weed in fields, gardens, ditches and irrigation channels, spreading along roads and trails. There is also *F.kashmirianum* - which was not known to Stewart published by Munshi. It is not in Polygoanceae of 'Flora of Pakistan' with records from Kashmir & now Ladakh: is very close to *F. tataricum *but differs in having much pubescent petioles; hastate deltoid lamina; tubular, partite, much pubescent(at base) ochrea; more or less equal perianth segments and keeled (at base) achenes - so clearly not the plant photographed on the way to Shang-sumdo. On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 11:57:15 AM UTC+1, Ushaprabha wrote: > Id of the plant.pl > location -Hemis sanctuary, on the way to Shang-sumdo from Kongmarula. > on 7th August 16. > > ushaprabha. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
