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Food- Tender portions of the plant are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Medicine- The juice of the plant is used as an anthelmintic
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
Temperate biome, altitude of 750- 3800m.
Annual herb 8cm or shorter.
Stems ascending to erect, branched from base, densely papillate.
Leaves are lance-shaped, 5-20 mm long, the basal leaves, when present, are much larger and broader.
fFowers at the end of lateral branches. Flowers are tiny, 6-8 mm long, pale blue, with shallow-triangular petals, and a little shorter lobules in between them. Sepal tube is about hald as long as the flower tube, with outcurved sepals.
Seeds dark brown, ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.5-0.8 mm.
Flowering: January- June.