Doronicum turkestanicum

Family Asteraceae. Native range - Siberia, Mountainous Central Asia (east) and Kazakhstan. Alpine meadows, moraines, gravelly-stony tundra.

Doronicum turkestanicum a plant 25-75 cm tall. Stem solitary, in the lower third sparsely glandular-hairy, almost naked, beneath the capitulum considerably thickened and densely pubescent with long glandular hairs, leafy to one-half or two-thirds. Leaves from obovate-lobed, almost rounded to oblong-elliptic, decreasing in size toward the stem apex from 3-7 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide to 1-2.5 cm long and 0.4-0.7 cm wide, entire or with sparse short teeth, shortly acuminate, glabrous or with sparse short somewhat thick hairs; lower leaves on winged petioles 3-15 cm long, upper leaves sessile, semi-clasping the stem. Capitulum solitary, 3-4 cm in diam. Involucral bracts lanceolate-linear 1.2-1.7 cm long and 1-2(3) cm wide, long-acuminate, glandular-pubescent, in two rows. Corollas of ligulate flowers pale yellow, with tubes externally densely covered with stalked glandular hairs and with smooth three-toothed ligules, slightly or by one-third exceeding the involucral bracts. Tubular flowers dark yellow, one-third longer than the pappus. Achenes 2.8-3 mm long, longitudinally ribbed, variable: marginal ones smooth, without pappus; central ones shortly appressed-hairy upward, sometimes glabrous with pappi formed of numerous serrated bristles.