金头拟鼠麴草 jin tou ni shu qu cao

Gnaphalium chrysocephalum Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot) 10: 412. 1896, not Schultz Bipontinus (1845).

Herbs, perennial, erect. Stem usually simple, 60-80 cm tall, shortly pubescent, upper part lanate. Leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5-8 × 5-8 cm, abaxially scabrid, adaxially gray lanate, base half decurrent and narrowly cuneate, apex acute. Capitula densely corymbose, campanulate, ca. 6 mm in diam. Outer phyllaries lanate; middle ones golden yellow and polished, obovate-oblong, apex rounded; innermost ones pale, spatulate, base leathery, apex membranous. Florets bisexual. Achenes columnar to subellipsoid, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 4 mm, deciduous. Fl. Jun-Oct.

● Grassy slopes; 2600-2800 m. W Sichuan, Yunnan.