假球蒿 jia qiu hao

Subshrubs, 30-35 cm tall, with a thick rootstock. Lower and middle stem leaves: petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade suborbicular, oblong, or ovate, 0.5-0.8 × 0.5-0.8 cm, pubescent or glabrescent, 2-pinnatisect; segments 2 pairs, 2- or 3-sect; lobules linear or narrowly lanceolate, 2-3 × ca. 1 mm, apex mucronulate. Upper leaves and leaflike bracts 3- or 5-sect. Synflorescence a ± narrow panicle. Capitula nodding. Involucre ovoid, 1-1.5 mm in diam. Marginal female florets 2-4. Disk florets 3-5, male. Achenes obovoid. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.

● Sand dunes, dune margins, waste areas. Nei Mongol, Ningxia.