小花风毛菊 xiao hua feng mao ju

Serratula parviflora Poiret in Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 554. 1805; Saussurea atriplicifolia Fischer ex Herder; S. chowana F. H. Chen; S. parviflora var. atriplicifolia (Fischer ex Herder) Handel-Mazzetti; S. parviflora var. cinerascens Handel-Mazzetti; S. parviflora var. cuspidata Handel-Mazzetti.

Herbs 30-110 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, apically branched, narrowly winged, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. Basal leaves withered at anthesis. Lower stem leaves petiolate to subsessile; petiole 5-10(-20) mm, narrowly winged, base decurrent; leaf blade elliptic or narrowly ovate, 7-18(-30) × 1.5-4.5 cm, abaxially grayish green or glaucous, usually gland-dotted, and glabrous or puberulent, adaxially green and scabrid but glabrescent, base attenuate, margin dentate to denticulate, apex acuminate. Middle and upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly ovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 4-15 × 1-3.5 cm, gradually smaller upward on stem. Capitula numerous, in a corymbiform synflorescence, shortly pedunculate. Involucre narrowly campanulate, 5-8 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, yellowish green, apically or entirely dark purple, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, apex subacute to obtuse; outer phyllaries ovate, 2-3 × 1.5-2 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 3-7 × 2-2.5 mm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic, 9-10 × 0.8-1.5 mm. Receptacle bristles subulate, 5-6 mm. Corolla purple, 1.1-1.3 cm, tube 5-7 mm, limb 5-6 mm, lobes 2.5-4 mm. Achene cylindric, 3-4 mm. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 2-4 mm, scabrid; inner bristles (6-)8-9 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 26.

Forest margins, thickets, montane meadows and grasslands; 1600-3800 m. Gansu, Hebei, ?Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, ?Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, ?Yunnan [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia].