| Hypochoeris radicata L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Common name | cat’s-ear | ||
| Description | Stems usually several, from fleshy roots, forking, scapose, enlarged below heads and with numerous scalelike bracts; leaves somewhat glaucous beneath, in basal rosette, broadly oblong-lanceolate, sinuate-toothed to sinuate-pinnatifid, hispid with simple hairs; flowers yellow, the outer greenish beneath; involucral bracts lanceo- late-acuminate, bristly on midrib; achenes orange, muricate. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. |
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.