Pseudocaryopteris bicolor

Pseudocaryopteris bicolor (Bluebeard)

Flowering - Feb - May.

Pseudocaryopteris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Pseudocaryopteris (Briq.) P.D.Cantino

Also Known as Blue Bearded in English and Van Baasuti in Hindi.

Description:-

• Blue beard is an attractive, compact, mounding  shrub.
• The height of this plant is about 1-3m and bluish purple blooms.
• It is found is sub-tropical, outer Himalayas, from Pakistan to Bhutan , India and Bangladesh.

Characterstics:-

Leaves :-

Acuminate

• It is lance shaped to elliptic.
• It is accuminate, 4- 10 cm long, 1 - 2.5 cm broad.
• It is crenate - serrate, pubescent , shortly petiolate.

Flower:- 

• The flower of this plant is about 1.2-1.3 cm across.
• The colour of the flower may be Purple, blue or mauve (pale purple color)
• Sometimes white and bluish tinge are also there.
• Flower tube is about 1-1.2 cm long , limb 5 lobed and upper 4 oblong

Bracts:-

• Bracts of this flower is  2-2.5 mm long, linear, acute, velvety.