Chinese: Xiao hua mao guo cao
Synonym: Eritrichium munroi; Oreogenia munroi.
Region: China, Xizang, Bhutan, North India, Nepal.
Habitat: 3400 to 4000 m.
BotanyHerbs; annual, 5 to 10 cm tall.
Stems: usually several, erect, slender, pilose.
Leaves: sessile, basal ones with attenuate base; narrowly ovate to spatulate; 3 to 10 mm long, 1 to 4 mm wide; sparsely pubescent, margin entire; veins obscure.
Inflorescences: ± racemose, ebracteate; pedicel suberect, to 1.5 cm in fruit.
Flowers: widely spaced; calyx lobes erect, broadly lanceolate to oblong-ovate, ± 2 mm, somewhat enlarged in fruit, sparsely pubescent; corolla light blue, tubular, ± 2.5 mm; throat appendaged; lobes suborbicular, ± 0.5 mm wide.
Fruit: nutlets; oblong-ovoid; ± 1 by 0.5 mm; wrinkled, short appressed pubescent; attachment scar narrowly ovate.