灰白阿尔泰狗娃花 hui bai a er tai gou wa hua

Kalimeris canescens Nees, Gen. Sp. Aster. 229. 1832; Aster canescens (Nees) Fisjun (1965), not Pursh (1813); A. pyropappus Boissier; A. spatioides C. B. Clarke; Heteropappus alberti (Regel) Novopokrovsky; H. altaicus var. canescens (Nees) Koroljuk; H. canescens (Nees) Novopokrovsky; K. alberti Regel.

Plants gray-white. Stems erect or ascending, 30-60 cm tall, strigillose, glandular, branched from base, virgately branched in upper part. Leaves broadly subspatulate, 0.5-0.6 cm; upper adnate to branches and peduncles, linear, ca. 1 × 0.1-0.2 cm, or oblong-linear. Involucres 0.9-1.1 cm in diam.; outer phyllaries leaflike, inner phyllaries with membranous margin, glandular, puberulent.

Dry stony mountains. N Xinjiang [Afghanistan, NW India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia (W Siberia), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia (Iran)].