Pyrethrum pulchrum Ledeb. - an impressive flower growing on large-stoned screes at the snow line, usually on glacier moraines in the mountains of Central Asia and South Siberia.

An ancient moraine closing the cirque of the sources of the rivulet descending southward from the the Yuzhno-Chuiskii mountain range between the Chikty and Akbul Rivulet, 2600 m above sea level, the upper Dzhazator River basin, Kosh-Agach District, Altai Republic, West Siberia, Russia. 11th July 1998. O. Kosterin.

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