Leontopodium pusillum (Beauverd) Hand.-Mazz.

Family: Asteraceae

Description: Herbs, perennial, subpulvinate. Rhizome slender and many branched, with dense radical rosettes of sterile leaves and numerous flowering stems.

Habitat: Alpine grasslands, rocky screes, gravelly slopes, salt lake banks and shores; 3500-5600 m.

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Form of cushion F Low cushion
Compactness 1 Compact, hard (peat-accumulating)
Variability 0 No variability
Root system R Rhizomes
Woodiness 0 Herbaceaous
Thorniness 0 No
Succulence 0 No
Flowers 1 Short peduncle

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