Himalayan Tree Vernonia is a small tree with velvet-hairy branchlets. Leaves are obovate-oblong or lance-shaped, pointed or blunt. Margins are entire or irregularly toothed. The leaf-stalk half encircles the stem at the base. Flowers are pale mauve in heads about 8 mm long, very numerous, in large branched clusters at the end of branches. Achenes are 10-ribbed, and the pappus is whitish. Himalayan Tree Vernonia is found in the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan to NE India, at altitudes of 400-2400 m. Flowering: February-April.