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Leontopodium leontopodioides (Willd.) Beauverd trib. Gnaphalieae 
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FamilyASTERACEAE
Genus speciesLeontopodium leontopodioides (Willd.) Beauverd trib. Gnaphalieae
BibliographyBull. Soc. Bot. Genéve, sér. 2, 1: 187, 871 (1909)
Native Ranges. Siberia to Pakistan and Japan
Primary BiomeSubalpine
Habitatgrassland
Altitude100-3800m
Descriptionstems thin, leaves narrowly lanceolate, grey lanate, adaxially sometimes glabrous, acute, bracts of involucre not producing star, linear, capitula 2-5 in cluster
Size20-25cm
Colorwhite
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
SynonymsAntennaria leontopodioides (Willd.) Nakai
Antennaria steetzeana Turcz.
Filago leontopodioides Willd.
Gnaphalium leontopodioides (Willd.) Willd.
Leontopodium sibiricum Cass.
Territory3 Asia-Temperate
     30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk)
     31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, PRM Primorye)
     36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHN China North-Central, CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang)
     37 Mongolia
     38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea)
4 Asia-Tropical
     40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan, WHM West Himalaya)
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