Syn.: Capnoides flabellata Kuntze
Family: Papaveraceae Juss.
Distribution: Western Himalaya – western Nepal, northern India, western Tibet, northern Pakistan.
Ecology: It grows on alpine stony slopes and rocks, at elevations from 3000 to 4500 m. Blooms from June to August.
Description: Perennial herb, glabrous, glaucous. Stems erect, 20–50(–90) cm tall, branched, leafy. Lower leaves long-petiolate, 8–18 cm long, pinnate with 3–5 pairs of leaflets, leaflets subsessile, broadly flabellate, dentate or shallowly dissected, fleshy, upper leaves much smaller. Inflorescence branched, racemes 10–20 cm long, 10–20(–30)-flowered; bracts small, membranous, not exceeding short pedicels; sepals ovate, only 2–3 mm long, dentate; corolla yellow, 11–18 mm long, narrow, outer petals hardly dilated at apex, spur of upper petal 3–3.5 mm, inner petals 9–12 mm. Fruit linear, 12–20 mm long.
These images were taken in India, Ladakh, Hinju (by Jindřich Houska, August 3, 2013).
