川缬草 chuan xie cao

Plants 25-55 cm tall. Rhizomes reduced; roots fascicled, fibrous, ca. 1 mm in diam. Stolons sometimes present. Stems solitary, erect, simple, densely retrorsely hispid below, gradually sparsely so upward. Leaves all cauline, sparsely hispidulous adaxially; lower 1 or 2 pairs with petiole 2-3 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 2-5 × 1.2-2 cm, margin subentire to serrate; upper leaves pinnatisect, segments 4- or 5-paired, linear to elliptic, 1.5-3 × 0.2-0.7 cm; terminal segment similar or slightly broader. Inflorescence laxly corymbiform; peduncles 8-14 cm; bracts linear; bracteoles ca. as long as achenes. Corolla rose, funnelform, 4-4.5 mm; tube ca. 2.5 mm, inside villous; lobes 1.5-2 × ca. 1 mm. Stamens and style exserted. Achenes narrowly ovoid, ca. 4 mm, sparsely hispid. Fl. Jul, fr. Aug.

● Mountain slopes; ca. 3600 m. SW Sichuan (Muli).