Japanese name: タカネコウリンカ（高嶺紅輪花） Scientific name:Tephroseris takedana
[Overview]
A perennial 18–35 cm tall, found in dry grasslands in the subalpine to alpine zone.
The whole plant is covered with white woolly hairs.
The stem is erect.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves are oblong, 2.5–6 cm long and 1.7–4 cm wide, have leaf stalks, and persist at flowering time.
The stem leaves are simple and alternate, oblong, covered with cobwebby hairs on both sides, and clasp the stem at the base.
4–5 flower heads are borne at the stem tip in an umbel-like arrangement.
The flowers consist of ray florets and tubular florets; the ray florets are orange to yellow, short at 1 cm long, and stand upright without opening flat.
The flower stalk is 1–2.5 cm and tinged with purple.
The involucre is cylindrical, 0.7–1 cm long, and blackish purple.
Bracts tinged with blackish purple are attached at the base of the flower.
The achenes are hairy and have a pappus 0.6–0.7 cm long.
