Cremanthodium campanulatum Diels

Flowering and fruiting from May to September.

Cremanthodium campanulatum var. campanulatum is close relative of Cremanthodium campanulatum var. brachytricum, but differs from the latter in involucre outside blackish purple pilose or glabrous (vs. bracts outside shortly black pilose), pappus white (vs. brown), ca. as long as corolla (vs. much shorter than tubular corolla).

Cremanthodium campanulatum is occurring in SW to W Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan of China, NE Myanmar.

Stems solitary, rarely 2, erect, purplish red, 10-30 cm, tall, 2-3 cm in diameter, proximally glabrous, distally purple pilose. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole 6-12 cm long, purple pilose, base sheathed; leaf blade reniform, 0.7-2.5 cm long, 1-5 cm wide, glabrous, sometimes abaxially purple, pilose, margin purple pilose, shallowly crenate or lobed; lobes 7-12, with white prominent palmate veins on both surfaces. Middle stem leaves shortly petiolate, base sheathed; leaf blade smaller, reniform. Distal stem leaves ovate or lanceolate, margin sharply dentate, without sheaths. Capitulum solitary, nodding. Involucre campanulate, 1.5-2.8 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, outside blackish purple pilose or glabrous, but base hairy; involucral bracts 10-14, in 2 rows, purplish red to purplish red, rarely yellowish white, petaloid, obovate-oblong or broadly elliptic, 0.7-2 cm, thin, submembranous, conspicuously veined, margin subentire, ciliate, outside sometimes pilose, apex rounded or rarely narrowly lanceolate, apex acute. Florets numerous, all tubular, purplish red, 6-8 mm; tube ca. 2 mm; styles extending from corolla, slender; branches of style blackish purple papillate. Pappus white or brown, ca. as long as or shorter than tubular corolla. Achenes brown, cuneate, 3-5 mm, slightly compressed, apex truncate, with denticulate corona. Leaves glabrous. Involucral bracts purplish red, outside glabrous. Pappus white, ca. as long as tubular corolla.

Growing in forest understories, forest margins, grassy slopes, scrub, alpine meadows, gravel zones on high mountains; 3200-4800 m.

Cremanthodium campanulatum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (Franch.) Diels mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1912.

钟花垂头菊（学名：Cremanthodium campanulatum）为菊科垂头菊属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于缅甸以及中国大陆的云南、西藏等地，生长于海拔3,200米至4,800米的地区，一般生长在林缘、高山草甸、灌丛中、草坡以及高山流石滩，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。