Woolly Ground Daisy is a perennial, strongly
aromatic herb with branches clustered, creeping, white woolly; mature
stems clothed with remains of old leaves. Leaves are cuneiform, 3-5
lobed or linear inverted-lanceshaped, entire upwards, 1.5 - 2 cm long.
Flower-heads are borne at branch-ends, shortly stalked, 1.5-2.5 cm in
diameter. Involucral bracts white woolly, broadly to narrowly lancolate
with brown fringed margins, 0.5-1 x 0.05-0.2 cm. Receptacle flat,
naked. Ray florets are pink, 1.5 x 0.3 cm; ligule narrowly elliptic,
obscurely 3-fid. Disc florets are hermaphrodite, yellow, tubular,
sparsely glandular, slightly inflated at the base, 4 x 0.5 mm; limb
5-fid; lobes ovate, pointed. Seed-pods are obscurely obconic, 1.5 x 1
mm, angled, glandular, crowned by the style base. Pappus yellow, almost
equalling the flower tube, linear, flattened at the tips. Woolly Ground
Daisy is found in Western Himalayas, at altitudes of 4000-5000 m, in
Jammu & Kashmir and W. Tibet. Flowering: August.