雪莲花,为菊科凤毛菊属多种植物带花全草。它们主要生长在青藏高原、天山山脉及其毗邻地区海拔2500～5000米的高山上。雪莲花因其生长在终年不化的雪地里,并形似莲花而得名。雪莲花的形态特征为,茎较短或不发育,叶基生,植株呈莲座状,全株常密被白色或褐色棉毛,头状花序常被大而膜质或者密生棉毛的白色或褐色苞叶包围。 Snow lotus is a variety of plants of the genus Asteraceae. They are mainly grown on high mountains at altitudes of 2500 to 5000 meters above the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tianshan Mountains, and their adjacent areas. Snow lotus is named because it grows in the snow that does not change all the year round. The morphological characteristics of snowdrops are: short or undeveloped stems, basal leaves, rosettes, whole plants often densely covered with white or brown cotton hairs, and headlike inflorescences often surrounded by large, membranous or dense cottony white or brown cilia. .