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Leontopodium campestre (Ledeb.) Hand.-Mazz.  
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FamilyASTERACEAE
Genus speciesLeontopodium campestre (Ledeb.) Hand.-Mazz. 
BibliographyVerh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 74: 28 (1924)
Native RangeSiberia to Central Asia and Qinghai
Primary BiomeSubalpine
Habitatgrassland
Altitude700-4500m
Descriptionfloral stems leafy, leaves oblong or linear, 2-4cm, grey tomentose, the basal long petiolate, bracts linear, unevenly long, star 4-5cm wide
Size15-30cm
Coloryellowish
Bloomsummer
Ca
Typeperennial
Cultivationhumous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site
alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer
Propagationseed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-20°C
division in early spring; cuttings in late summer
SynonymsLeontopodium alpinum var. campestre Ledeb.
Leontopodium fedtschenkoanum Beauverd
Leontopodium ochroleucum ssp. campestre (Ledeb.) Grubov
Territory3 Asia-Temperate
     30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya)
     32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan)
     36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang)
     37 Mongolia
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