| Taraxacum lacerum Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Taraxacum groenlandicum Dahlstedt, Taraxacum cerataphorum (Ledeb.) DC. | ||
| Description | Petioles usually more or less purplish; outer leaves linear, with broad, triangular lobes, the inner linear-oblanceolate, dissected, with irregular, incised-laciniate lobes; terminal lobe elongate, hastate-sagittate; outer involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, with short, pale-green horns, the inner lanceolate to linear and darker than the outer; ligules yellow, with olivaceous to purplish striae beneath; achenes brown to olivaceous, smooth below, muriculate above, with beak much longer than body. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, moist places in the mountains. Described from the upper Liard River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A variable species, here taken in a broad sense. |
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.