Authors: L.  

Botanical Description

sometimes quite extensively, with slender branched stolons. Leaves obovate to spathulate, 2-3.5cm long, densely white-hairy beneath, more or less glabrous above. Capitula up to eight, occasionally more, densely clustered, on stems 5-20cm tall, the tips of the bracts white, sometimes pink. Throughout Europe, at low aldtudes in the north, on mountains in the south, open grassland, heathland, sandy and stony places. A.a. var. hyperborea has the leaves white-hairy on both surfaces and pinkish capitula; var. minima (syn. A. candida) is a half-sized version; var. rosea see A. microphylla; var. tomentosa has both leaf surfaces extra white hairy.

a, A. alpina; b, A. dioica;