| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Saussurea salsa (Pall.) Spreng trib. Cardueae |
| Bibliography | Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 381 (1826) |
| Native Range | e. Turkey to c. Siberia and n. China |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Description | leaves petiolate, ovate to broadly elliptic, 5-30cm, green, abaxially subglabrous, lyrate-pinnatisect, segments entire, capitula numerous in flattened corymb |
| Size | 15-20cm |
| Color | pale purple |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 13-18°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Heterotrichum salsum (Pall.) M.Bieb. Saussurea crassifolia DC. Saussurea daurica Adams Serratula salsa Pall. Theodorea salsa (Pall.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (KRY Krym, RUE East European Russia, RUS South European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TKM Turkmenistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 33 Caucasus (TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, TUR Turkey) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (WHM West Himalaya) |