Flowers of the Tirthan valley
Some flowers that I photographed and later tried to identify on the Tirath trek, roughly arranged by location.
Chalocha (2300m)
Large bellflower on the trail near Chalocha
Nada Thatch (3250m) and Shankha (2800m)
Ruby cinquefoil at Nada Thatch
False strawberry
Tiny Asiatic forget-me-not
Around Tirath (~3700m)
Alpine bistort in the grassy meadow
A rattle lousewort near a stream
Himalayan marsh orchid, an endangered medicinal plant also known as salam panja
Deep blue Himalayan geranium with purple veins
Tirath to Jatholi (3650m - 4000m)
Lemon yellow primrose
A lone Himalayan blue poppy.
Another unknown variety of blue poppy
Siberian geranium
Many-flowered anemone. Hairy leaves differentiate it from the Himalayan snow anemone
Another bunch of many-flowered anemone
Asurbag meadow (~3800m)
Large-leaf primrose
The impressive Himalayan meadow primrose
Silverleaf cinquefoil
Rhodiola (possibly Himalayan). Cousin of the medicinal rhodiola rosea
Honeybee on rhodiola flowers
Anemones in the meadow
Kashmir lagotis
Info
- The Himalayan wildflowers collection at the excellent Flowers of India website.
- Flora Search, a search engine that I made to identify Himalayan flowers