Botanical name: Leontopodium monocephalum    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Leontopodium fimbrilligerum, Leontopodium evax var. fimbrilligerum

One-Flowered Edelweiss is a dense mat forming herb, 4-10 cm. Flower-heads arise at branch-ends, 1-10, 4-6 mm across, on 0.5-5 cm long axis, subtended by pale yellow, radiating, woolly, inverted-lanceshaped-spoon-shaped, 12-15 x 3-4 mm, flower-bracts. Phyllaries are in 2-3-series, ovate-lanceshaped, 4-6.2 x 1-2 mm with blackish, lacerate, scarious margins. Florets are about 3 mm long, 4-lobed. Stolons are slender with scattered recurved scales or non sheathing small leaves. Flowering stems are very slender, hairy. Leaves are oblong lanceshaped to spoon-shaped 3-9 x 2-3 mm, blunt, usually covered with dense pale yellow tomentum (rarely somewhat greyish). One-Flowered Edelweiss is found in NE Pakistan to the Himalaya and Tibet, at altitudes of 12000-15000. Flowering: July-September.

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