| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Saussurea schanginiana (Wydler) Fisch. ex Herder trib. Cardueae |
| Bibliography | Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 41(II): 5 (1868) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East and n. Xinjiang |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 2100-2800m |
| Description | leaves linear, entire or remotely denticulate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, capitula solitary, 2-3cm across, involucre pubescent, dark coloured |
| Size | 5-30cm |
| Color | lilac-violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 13-18°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Heterotrichum schanginii M.Bieb. ex DC. Lagurostemon pygmaeus var. schanginianus Wydler Saussurea pygmaea var. schanginiana (Wydler) Herder Saussurea pygmaea var. sibirica Herder |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, MAG Magadan) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |