Yakla Snow Lotus

The flowers form in a dense head of small capitula, often surrounded by dense purple woolly hairs; the individual florets are also purple. The dense purple wool is densest in the high altitude species, and aid in thermoregulation of the flowers, minimising frost damage at night, and also preventing ultraviolet light damage from the intense high altitude sunlight.

In most Chinese martial arts literature, the snow Lotus was classified a rare herb as precious as lingzhi mushroom, and old ginseng.