| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Heteropappus |
| Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
| Scientific name: | Heteropappus altaicus (Willd.) Novopokr. |
| Name acc. to: | Bektemir |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Synonym: | Aster altaicus Willdenow (acc. to Flora of China) |
| Synonym: | Kalimeris altaica (Willdenow) Nees (acc. to Flora of China) |
| Synonym: | Aster gmelinii Tausch (acc. to Flora of China) |
| Description: | Plants green. Stems ascending or erect, 10-30 cm tall, covered with upwardly curved appressed short hairs, branched from base, with few branches. Leaves spreading, linear-lanceolate or spatulate, 3-7(-10) × 0.2-0.7 cm. Capitula solitary, terminal on branches. Involucres 5-15 mm in diam.; phyllaries with outer margin narrowly scarious, inner margin broadly scarious, glandular, hairy. |
| Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250097873 |
| Habitat: | Steppes, steppe meadows, debris and stony slopes, rocks, sides and bottom of sayrs, thin sands, bels, pebbles. |