风毛菊(原变种) feng mao ju (yuan bian zhong)

Serratula japonica Thunberg in Murray, Syst. Veg., ed. 14, 723. 1784; Saussurea amara (Linnaeus) Candolle var. microcephala (Franchet) Lipschitz (1979), not S. amara f. microcephala Franchet (1883); S. glomerata Poiret var. chinensis F. H. Chen; S. intermedia Turczaninow; S. japonica var. intermedia (Turczaninow) Lipschitz; S. japonica f. leucocephala (Nakai & Kitagawa) Nakai & Kitagawa; S. japonica var. longicephala Hayata; S. japonica var. maritima Kitagawa; S. linearis Champion ex Bentham; S. microcephala Franchet; S. microcephala var. aptera Nakai & Kitagawa; S. microcephala f. leucocephala Nakai & Kitagawa; S. taquetii H. Léveillé & Vaniot.

Stem not winged. Leaf blade base not or very shortly decurrent.

Mountain slopes, forests, thickets, loess slopes, roadsides, wastelands, fallow fields; 200-2800 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea, Mongolia].