leontopodium

Leontopodium discolor is a perennial with white flowers that grows 15-30 cm in height.

Leontopodium discolor requires full sun.

Greuter and Leontopodium nivale subsp.

Leontopodium discolor is found in alpine environments in moist stony soils and scree.

The Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), is one of the symbols of the National Park.

Leontopodium discolor can be found in East Asia, Southeast China, Japan, and Korea.

File:Gnaphalium leontopodium Atlas Alpenflora.

Leontopodium discolor is synonymous with Leontopodium coreanum - Nakai.

Leontopodium shinanense of Leontopodium is endemic around Mount Kisokoma.

Leontopodium discolor, known as Ezo-usuyuki-sō or Rebun-usuyuki-sō in Japan, is a species of Edelweiss native to alpine areas of Hokkaidō.

Since 1822 (Cassini) Leontopodium has no longer been considered part of the Gnaphalium genus, but classified alongside it as a distinct genus within the Gnaphalieae tribe.

Other plants include Alpine Aster alpinus Aster, Edelweiss Leontopodium nivalis and White Mountain Avens Dryas octopetala.

Introduced in 1928, it was named after a mountain flower, the Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), which is associated with alpinism and the Alps, and regarded as a symbol of Switzerland.

Leontopodium microphyllum, belonging to sunflower family (Asteraceae) and relative to the European Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum), is endemic to Taiwan.

The first scientific name for Leontopodium alpinum which was validly published according to the current binomial nomenclature is Gnaphalium alpinum in the first edition (1753) of Linnaeus's Species Plantarum.

It is called by botanists the "Gnaphalium leontopodium", but by the Swiss "EDELWEISS", which signifies "NOBLE PURITY"."

Species include Aquilegia alpina, Arnica montana, Epilobium angustifolium, Gentiana, Leontopodium alpinum, Lilium martagon, Rhododendron ferrugineum, Saxifraga, Sempervivum arachnoideum, Sempervivum montanum, and Trollius europaeus.

American genera include Arnica, Eriophyllum, Lewisia, Liatris, Phlox, Penstemon, and Silphium; Himalayan genera include Androsace, Gentiana, Incarvillea, Leontopodium, Meconopsis, Potentilla, and Veronica.

Above the shrublands are alpine meadows which support a variety of herbaceous plants, including species of Alchemilla, Androsace, Anemone, Diapensia, Draba, Gentiana, Impatiens, Leontopodium, Meconopsis, Pedicularis, Potentilla, Primula, Rhododendron, Saussurea, Saxifraga, Sedum, and Viola.