Page 28 - Растения Сахалинской области в легендах и мифах

Goddess Venus once looked into the rich natural forests of the
north. With the appearance of a beautiful maiden in the forest,
everything came to life: the flowers spread out in a colourful
carpet, the trees spread their lush crowns, the sky stopped frowning
and smiled with the sun, and the birds chirped merrily and started
dancing with Venus. The goddess sat down to chill on a soft cover

of grass and took off her shoes with ribbons to give rest to her
tiredfeet. When the beauty was packing up, she said goodbye
to the hospitable forest and left, leaving her shoes behind. The
forest noticed the forgotten shoes and turned them into a flower
unlike any other. So the forest retained the memory of the beautiful
goddess Venus.

Leontopodium antennarioides

(Leontopodium antennarioides Socz.)

Perennial short-rhizome herb up to 20 cm tall, with white tomentose
pubescence. Basal leaves in a rosette, up to 2 cm long and 0.5 cm wide.
Stem leaves are smaller than radical leaves. The bolls are 2–5 in number,
hemispherical, 5–7 mm in diameter, collected in a common inflorescence
surrounded by 3–5 bracts, forming an unequal “star” 1–3 cm in diameter.
In the Sakhalin region, it is known from several localities on the Shmidt
Peninsula (Okhinsky District) and ridge. Vostochny (Makarovsky district).
Within the Far East of Russia, the species was found in the mountains of
Okhotia, Priamurye, on the Stanovoy ridge, in the northern part of Sikhote-
Alin. Recorded also in Eastern Siberia.

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