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Subgenus Saussurea
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Subgenus Saussurea

Saussurea

Saussurea is a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae, native to cool temperate and arctic regions of East Asia, Europe, and North America, with the highest diversity in alpine habitats in the Himalayas and East Asia. Common names include saw-wort and snow lotus, the latter used for a number of high altitude species in East Asia.

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3 branches of this group, most-observed first

Section Saussurea

sectionSaussurea

Rosulascentes

sectionRosulascentes

Jurineiformes

sectionJurineiformes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1420048.