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Cavea is a low perennial herbaceous plant that is assigned to the family Asteraceae. Cavea tanguensis is currently the only species assigned to this genus. It has a basal rosette of entire, slightly leathery leaves, and stems of 5–25 cm high, topped by bowl-shaped flower heads with many slender florets with long pappus and purplish corollas. The vernacular name in Chinese is 葶菊 (ting ju). It grows high in the mountains of Bhutan, China (Sichuan), India (Sikkim), Nepal and Tibet, and flowers in July and August.
This plant can be found in Bhutan, Nepal, southwestern Sichuan, Sikkim, and Tibet.
Leaves are used on wounds, and to suppress fever. In traditional Tibetan medicin, the species is known as ming-chen-nag-po.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cavea tanguensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
