Saussurea

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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