马兰(原变种) ma lan (yuan bian zhong)

Aster cantoniensis (Loureiro) Courtois; A. ursinus H. Léveillé (1913), not E. S. Burgess (1903); A. yangtzensis Migo; Asteromoea cantoniensis (Loureiro) Matsumura; A. indica (Linnaeus) Blume; Boltonia cantoniensis (Loureiro) Franchet & Savatier; B. indica (Linnaeus) Bentham; B. indica var. rivularis Hance; Hisutsua cantoniensis (Loureiro) Candolle; H. serrata Hooker & Arnott; Kalimeris indica (Linnaeus) Schultz Bipontinus; K. indica var. polymorpha (Vaniot) Kitamura; K. indica var. stenophylla Kitamura; K. lancifolia J. Q. Fu; Martinia polymorpha Vaniot; Matricaria cantoniensis Loureiro.

Rhizomes 0.5-18 cm. Cauline leaves oblong, oblanceolate, elliptic, or obovate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, eglandular. Phyllaries obovate-oblong. Fl. Jun-Nov.

Forest margins, grasslands, riverbanks, field margins, roadsides, very common; sea level to 3900 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, S Japan, Korea, ?Laos, Malaysia, N Myanmar, E Russia, N Thailand, N Vietnam].

The young rosettes are used in salads; the leaves are used as folk medicine.