Botanical name: Ajania khartensis    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Tanacetum mutellina, Chrysanthemum mutellina, Chrysanthemum khartense

Prostrate Tansy is a white-woolly semiprostrate perennial herb, with many stems arising from a woody stock. Stems are usually 10-20 cm long. Leaves are small dissected, 6-20 mm, cut into short linear segments. Yellow flower-heads, 6-8 mm across, are borne in dense rounded clusters at the end of stems. Flowers heads are either stalkless or stalked. Bracts just below the flowers are broadly oblong, woolly haired. Prostrate Tansy is found in the Himalayas, Kashmir to South-West China, at altitudes of 3600-4800 m. Flowering: July-September.

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