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Saussurea (named after Theodor de Saussure, 1767-1845, or for his father, Horace Benoit de Saussure, 1740-1799). Compositae. Annual, biennial, or perennial, glabrous or tomentose herbs of various habit, sometimes planted in the garden for ornament.

Leaves unarmed, alternate, entire, toothed, pinnatifid or pinnatisect: heads narrow or broad, sometimes crowded on the dilated top of a simple st., peduncled, or sessile, solitary, corymbose or panicled; fls. purple or bluish, all perfect and similar, tube slender, limb narrow 5-cleft; involucre ovoid-oblong, globose or hemispheric, bracts not spinescent: achenes glabrous, oblong, 4-ribbed. —About 200 species, temperate regions of Eu., Asia, and N. Amer., mostly in the mountains. S. gossipiphora, Don. Perennial, densely long white or yellowish matted woolly: st. 6-12 in. high, hollow, clavate, often 4 in. broad at top: lvs. sessile, linear, remotely toothed or runcinate-pinnatifid: heads very many, cylindric; involucre-bracts linear-oblong, shining: achenes narrowly obovoid. Himalayas and China. G.C. III. 51 :85. S. leucoma, Diels. Plant 4-9 in. high: lvs. basal, narrowly pinnate, upper almost linear, the blade being entirely sacrificed to the development of the abundant cottony tomentum in which practically the whole plant is smothered, the fl.-heads alone are free of it and form a compact mass 2-3 in. diam. China. G.C. III. 51 : suppl. Feb. 10. S. Veitchiana, Drumm. & Hutchins. Herb, 2-3 ft. high, with about 2-5 leafy scapes from a tufted crown: fl.-sts. rigid, floccose upward: lvs., the lowest, 10 x 2 in., oblong-linear, green above, loosely hairy below; the upper ovate-lanceolate; bracts blush-pink or purplish : heads nearly ovoid, over 1 in.; florets deep purple. China. B.M. 8381. G.C. III. 50:85.
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