Allardia tridactylites - Three-Finger Ground Daisy

Three-Finger Ground Daisy is a hairless perennial herb, up to 6 cm, with many stems. Leaves are 3-lobed or -parted, looking like 3 fingers. They wedge-shaped, 1-2 x 0.5-1 cm, hairless, base wedge-shaped-narrowed, in dense rosettes, stalkless. Flower-heads solitary, daisy-like, at branch-ends, 2.5-3.5 cm across, stalkless. Ray florets 8-15; blade pinkish white, pink, or purple-red, elliptic-oblong, 7-11 × 2.5-4 mm, tip 2- or 3-finely toothed. Disk florets: flower yellow, 4-5.5 mm, tip 5-lobed. Involucre is hemispheric, 1.5-2 cm in diameter; phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, below hairless, scarious margin broad, dark brown, outer phyllaries ovate-oblong to oblong, about 7 mm, tip cuspidate, inner ones oblong, about 8 mm. Seedpods are 2.5-4 x 0.6-0.8 mm, somewhat curved, 5-ribbed, hairless, with stalkless glands. Three-Finger Ground Daisy is is found in floodlands, talus on mountain slopes, from NE Afghanistan to SW Siberia and the Himalayas, at altitudes of 3000-4000 m. Flowering: July-September.