Flowering from July to September.
Pulicaria insignis is occurring in SW Qinghai, Xizang of China, India.
Perennial herbs. Rhizome long, stout and densely branched, with dense branches and densely white lanate buds. Stems 10-25 cm tall, 2-3-flowering branches, densely tomentose. Basal leaves oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base gradually narrowed to petiole; cauline leaves sessile, 5-8 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, oblong, apex obtuse, margin entire, base semiamplexicaul, surfaces densely pubescent; lateral veins 4-5 pairs, inconspicuous. Heads solitary, rarely with additional 1-2 axillary heads. Involucre broad campanulate, 1-1.3 cm long, 2-2.5 cm in diameter. Phyllaries in 2-3-series, linear-lanceolate or linear, apex acuminate; outer ones herbaceous above, abaxially densely hispid, apex acuminate; inner ones herbaceous, apex acuminate, abaxially hispid. Ray florets yellow, pubescent outside; ligules apex 3-dentate. Disc florets bisexual; corolla tubular, glabrous, ca. 7 mm long. Achenes cylindrical, apex truncate, base narrower, light brown sericeous. Pappus white, in 2 series; outer apex acuminate.
Growing in rocky slopes, alpine meadows; 3000-4500 m.
