康马蒿 kang ma hao

Subshrubs, 30-40 cm tall, with short capitate branches, puberulent or glabrescent. Lower and middle stem leaves ± sessile; leaf blade oblong or elliptic, 1-2.5 × 0.5-1 cm, abaxially puberulent or glabrescent, pinnatisect; segments 1 or 2 pairs; lobes linear, linear-lanceolate, or falcate, 3-6 × ca. 1 mm. Upper leaves and leaflike bracts 3-lobed or entire. Synflorescence a narrow, spikelike panicle. Capitula sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre globose or hemispheric, 5-6 mm in diam. Marginal female florets 8-15. Disk florets 20-35, male; corolla limb puberulent. Achenes obovoid or ovoid. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.

● Roadsides, slopes; 4300-4500 m. E Xizang.