钟花垂头菊(原变种) zhong hua chui tou ju (yuan bian zhong)

Senecio campanulatus Franchet, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 39: 284. 1892, not Schultz Bipontinus ex Klatt (1888); Cremanthodium larium Handel-Mazzetti; C. wardii W. W. Smith.

Leaves glabrous. Phyllaries purplish red, outside glabrous. Pappus white, as long as tubular corolla.

Forest understories, forest margins, grassy slopes, scrub, alpine meadows, gravelly areas on mountains; 3200-4800 m. SW and W Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [NE Myanmar].