| Antennaria friesiana (Trautv.) Ekman | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Antennaria ekmanniana Pors., Antennaria alpina var. friesiana Trautv., Antennaria angustifolia Ekman | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose from vertical or ascending root, with branching caudex; basal leaves linear-lanceolate to spatulate-lanceolate, acute, more or less densely tomen- tose on both sides, with more or less appressed hairs; stem leaves lanceolate-linear to linear, with broad, flat, scarious tips; heads 2-5 (rarely single), densely com- pressed, or the lower short-pedunculated; involucral bracts in 3—4 (-5) series, brown, greenish at base when young, the outer oblong-ovate, more or less acute and lacerate, the inner narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, lacerate [var. megacéphala (Fern.) Hult.; A. megacephala Fern.]; achenes gla- brous. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes in the mountains, meadows on tundra. Described from the Kolyma River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Only pistillate flowers known. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.