I finally understood this plant group...... this is our own home grown... stachys ... as the lamb's ear we grew in colder climes in north america...a very useful herb for healing external and internal wounds... since the time of early chistianity... .
I'll have to put this together now.... Wikipedia does not even mention s. sericea... Usha di ==== On Jul 10, 7:47 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stachys floccosa Benth., erect stout plant, obtusely angled, densely covered > with sift white wool; leaves ovate-oblong to ovate-cordate, up to 10 cm > long, lower petiolate, upper sessile; flowers in sessile axillary clusters, > nearly 1.5 cm long and up to 8 mm broad, pink; calyx spine-tipped; corolla > tube longer than calyx. Photographed from Gulmarg in Kashmir, growing along > hedges. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > Stachys-floccosa-Gulmarg-Kashmir-2.jpg > 146KViewDownload > > Stachys-floccosa-Gulmarg-Kashmir-4.jpg > 134KViewDownload > > Stachys-floccosa-Gulmarg-Kashmir-5.jpg > 122KViewDownload
