Botany

Cavea tanguensis

Cavea is a low perennial herbaceous plant that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. Cavea tanguensis is currently the only species assigned to this genus. It has a basal rosette of entire, slightly leathery leaves, and stems of 5–25 cm high, topped by bowl-shaped flower heads with many slender florets with long pappus and purplish corollas. The vernacular name in Chinese is 葶菊 (ting ju). It grows high in the mountains of Bhutan, China (Sichuan), India (Sikkim), Nepal and Tibet, and flowers in July and August.

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• ▸Hesperis matronalis
• ▸Eogavialis
• ▸Exocarya

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