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|accepted_name=Saussurea
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.
|place=16: 156, 196, plates 10–13. 1810
|year=1810
}}
|common_names=Saw-wort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cardueae;Saussurea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cardueae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saussurea]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Nicolas Théodore (1767–1845) and Horace Bénédict (1740–1799) de Saussure, Swiss naturalists
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 58, 83
|treatment_page=page 165
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 5–120+ cm; herbage tomentose or glabrescent, not spiny. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending, simple or branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal or cauline (sometimes cauline only), sessile or petiolate; blade margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces glabrous to densely tomentose, glandular or eglandular. <b>Heads</b> discoid, borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ovoid to campanulate or ± turbinate. <b>Phyllaries</b> many in 3–5(–10+) series, subequal to strongly unequal, appressed or not, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, toothed, or lobed, apices obtuse or acute, appendaged or not, not spine-tipped. <b>Receptacles</b> flat or convex, epaleate, smooth, usually subulate-scaly, sometimes bristly or naked. <b>Florets</b> 10–20; corollas white to blue or purple, tubes slender, abruptly expanded to throats, lobes linear; anther bases short-tailed, apical appendages linear, acute; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy subterminal nodes, distinct portions oblong to linear, short-papillate. <b>Cypselae</b> oblong, ± angled, cylindric or 4–5-angled, ribs (when present) smooth or roughened, apices entire, glabrous or minutely glandular, attachment scars basal; pappi usually of 2 series, outer of readily falling, short bristles, inner persistent or falling as unit, of basally connate, usually longer, plumose bristles. <b>x</b> = 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19?.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Eurasia;1 in Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 300–400 (6 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Saussurea</i> is a notoriously difficult, largely Asiatic genus with species boundaries often indistinct.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lipschitz1979a
|text=Lipschitz, S. J. 1979. Rod Saussurea DC. (Asteraceae). Leningrad.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Outer and mid phyllaries with toothed or lobed appendages
|[[Saussurea amara|Saussurea amara]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Outer and mid phyllaries entire, without appendages
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Proximal leaves ovate to lanceolate, usually more than 30 mm wide, bases broadly obtuse to truncate or cordate; plants 30–120 cm
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Proximal leaves linear to elliptic, 2–25 mm wide, bases acute to acuminate; plants 3–40 cm
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Cauline leaves usually more than 20, finely to ± coarsely serrate or dentate; s Alaska and Yukon to California, Idaho, and Montana
|[[Saussurea americana|Saussurea americana]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Cauline leaves usually 15 or fewer, coarsely laciniate-dentate; nw Alaska
|[[Saussurea triangulata|Saussurea triangulata]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Phyllaries subequal, linear to lanceolate; receptacles naked
|[[Saussurea nuda|Saussurea nuda]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Phyllaries strongly unequal, the outer ovate to lanceolate, conspicuously shorter than inner; receptacles scaly
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Tips of outer and mid phyllaries acute; Alaska and nw Canada
|[[Saussurea angustifolia|Saussurea angustifolia]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Tips of outer and mid phyllaries ± rounded; Rocky Mountains
|[[Saussurea weberi|Saussurea weberi]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Saussurea
|author=David J. Keil
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=North America;Eurasia;1 in Australia.
|reference=lipschitz1979a
|publication title=Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1810
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_172.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cardueae
|genus=Saussurea
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