柳叶风毛菊 liu ye feng mao ju

Serratula salicifolia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 817. 1753.

Herbs 15-50 cm tall, perennial, caespitose. Roots stout, fibrous. Caudex much branched near ground level. Stems usually numerous, erect, simple or branched. Leaves shortly petiolate or sessile; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 2-10 × 0.2-0.5 cm, abaxially white and densely tomentose, adaxially green and glabrous or sparsely pubescent, base cuneate-attenuate, margin entire or rarely basally dentate and usually revolute, apex acuminate. Capitula numerous to few, in a corymbiform synflorescence, pedunculate. Involucre cylindric, 4-7 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, purplish red; outer phyllaries ovate, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse; middle phyllaries ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 2-6 × 1-1.5 mm, apex acute; inner phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic to linear, 6-8 × 1-2 mm, apex acute. Receptacle bristles 6-8 mm. Corolla pink, 1.2-1.5 cm, tube 6-8 mm, limb 6-7 mm. Achene brown, 3.5-4.5 mm, glabrous. Pappus white; outer bristles ca. 2 mm; inner bristles 1-1.1 cm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.

Thickets, meadows, moist places in gullies; 1600-3800 m. Gansu, Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol [Mongolia, Russia (Siberia)].