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Three-Finger Ground Daisy

Allardia tridactylites

Three-Finger Ground Daisy (Allardia tridactylites) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · India · Resized

Scientific name
Allardia tridactylites
Family
Asteraceae, order Asterales
Group
Plant

A woolly mountain daisy that hugs the ground.

  • Spot it Grey woolly rosettes with three-lobed leaves and tiny daisy heads.
  • Home High, rocky slopes of Central Asia and the Himalaya.
  • Food web Its small flowers feed hardy mountain insects.
  • Why it matters Its woolly mats bind thin mountain soil and offer nectar to hardy insects where flowers are few.
Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • IndiaDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2018.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

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