Leontopodium pusillum (Beauverd) Hand.-mazz.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Leontopodium

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, subpulvinate. Rhizome slender and many branched, with dense radical rosettes of sterile leaves and numerous flowering stems. Stems 2-7 cm tall, densely leafy, densely white tomentose. Leaves spatulate to oblong-spatulate; radical leaves 10-25 × 2-4 mm, cauline leaves 10-20 × 2-3 mm, both surfaces densely white tomentose, base narrowed, apex obtuse. Capitula (1-)3-7, densely congested, 5-6 mm in diam.; bracteal leaves numerous, similar to cauline leaves, congested, forming star of 1.5-2.5 cm in diam. Involucre 3-4 mm, abaxially white lanate; phyllaries 3-seriate, apex usually dark brown, acute, glabrous. Corolla 2.5-3 mm. Achenes glabrous or slightly papillose. Pappus white, serrulate. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.02 - 0.07
Root system rhizome
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Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 10 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Leontopodium pusillum world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229650-1
WFO ID wfo-0000090941
COL ID 3T74K
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Leontopodium evax Leontopodium pusillum Leontopodium alpinum var. pusillum Leontopodium alpinum var. frigidum