Botanical name: Oreoseris gossypina    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gerbera gossypina, Gerbera pusilla, Gerbera serotina

Hairy Gerbera Daisy is a slender herbaceous plant commonly seen on open grassy slopes of the Himalayas. The daisy-like flower-heads are 2.5-4 cm across, with many small spreading ray-florets. Involucre white-woolly, with narrow lanceshaped pointed bracts. They are generally white in color and lightly tinged with pink. Flower-heads always grow singly on a long cottony leafless stem, above the leaves. The leaves, all at the base, are also 5-15 cm long, smooth and shining above, densely cottony beneath, lance-like, often pinnately lobed at the base. Hairy Gerbera Daisy is found in Pakistan, Himalayas to S Central China, at altitudes of 1200-2400 m. Flowering: March-June.

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