Botanical name: Anaphalis virgata    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Anaphalis stoliczkae, Anaphalis virgata var. stoliczkae

Branched Pearly Everlasting is a perennial herb, usually woody at base, entirely woolly. Stem is erect, densely covered with soft white woolly hairs, 18-45 cm tall, leafy, usually much branched from the base. Leaves are spreading linear lanceshaped, pointed or apiculate, semi-stem-clasping, narrowed, densely woolly on both surfaces, stalkless, with a flat or recurved margin, upper ones 8-30 x 0.5-2 mm, lower 10-40 x 1-3 mm. Flower-heads are borne in compact corymbs, white, 2-4 x 2-6 mm, woolly. Flower-cluster-stalk is densely woolly, mostly shorter, 3-12 mm long; phyllaries whitish or sometimes party reddish, loosely overlapping, in 4-6 series, exceeding the flower-cluster-stalk, slightly shiny, 2-4 x 1-1.7 mm. Branched Pearly Everlasting is found in W. Pakistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), S.W. Tibet, at altitudes of 2700-3200 m. Flowering: July-October.

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