Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth.

Flowering from July to October; fruiting from August to November.

Anaphalis margaritacea is occurring in S Gansu, E Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Xizang, S Shaanxi, W Hubei, S Hunan, N Guangxi of China, India, E Russia, Japan, North America.

Perennial herbs, erect decumbent, up to 60 cm tall, feebly branched above; rhizomes relatively slender. Stems woolly, white, densely and closely tomentose, not glandular. Leaf blades 1-3-nerved, narrowly lanceolate, entire, narrowed at both ends, 1.5-10 cm long, 0.8-2.4 cm wide, bases subclasping, decurrent, margins revolute, abaxial faces tomentose or glabrescent (proximal leaves), not glandular or very sparsely and inconspicuously glandular, adaxial faces green, glabrate. Heads many, in terminal dense corymbs, 3-9 mm across; peduncle 2-8 mm long, densely woolly. Involucres bract many-seriate, outermost white, ovate, obtuse or acute, scarious, light brownish at basal end; inner pale yellow-brown, narrow, linear-oblong. Ray florets female with filiform corolla, 2-3 mm long, obscurely toothed. Disc florets bisexual. Corolla ca. 3 mm long, 5-toothed. Style bifid. Achenes somewhat compressed and narrowly linear-oblong in outline, 1-2 mm long; those of disc florets ca. 0.3 mm long.

The chromosomal number of Anaphalis margaritacea is 2n = 26, 28 (Salter and Pinkava, 1979; Love and Love, 1982).

Growing in alpine grasslands, trails, roadsides, often disturbed sites; 300-3400 m.

Anaphalis margaretacea was widely planted as an ornamental, it is cultivated and naturalized in Europe.