马边兔儿风 ma bian tu er feng

Herbs, perennial, 20-50 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 2-9 cm, wingless; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 5-9 × 1-2.5 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially strigose, adaxially sparsely strigose, base attenuate, slightly decurrent, margin entire or sparsely callose-denticulate, apex mucronate. Capitula shortly pedunculate, arranged in panicles, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 4 mm in diam.; phyllaries 4- or 5-seriate, abaxially glabrous, outer phyllaries ovate, 2-3 mm, inner oblong-lanceolate, 7.5-9 mm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas tubular, 0.9-1.2 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong, unequal, anther appendages acuminate. Achenes subfusiform, ca. 4 mm, densely white pilose; pappus brownish or slightly red, ca. 6.5 mm. Fl. Mar-May, Oct.

● Stream banks, grassy areas; 600-1300 m. Chongqing, S Gansu, S Shaanxi, Sichuan.