小甘菊属（学名：Cancrinia）是菊科下的一个属，为多年生、簇生草本或灌木状植物。该属共有30种，分布于中亚和阿富汗。

Cancrinia is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are native to central Asia, where they are distributed in China, Mongolia, and Russia.

These are compact, woolly-haired perennial herbs and subshrubs. The leaves are alternately arranged or clustered, sometimes densely. Flower heads are solitary at the tips of the stems or arranged in inflorescences. The hemispherical or cup-shaped head is lined with 3 or 4 rows of phyllaries that sometimes have dark margins. It contains tubular yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene tipped with lance-shaped scales like a pappus.