Taraxacum kamtschaticum Dahlstedt
 
FamilyCompositae — APG family: Asteraceae
SynonymsTaraxacum lyratum
DescriptionLeaves with purplish petioles; patent, attenuate lobes with blunt tip; apical lobe larger than in T. alaskanum, often blunt; involucral bracts dark, lacking horns or tubercles below apex; ligules yellow, somewhat grayish beneath; achenes smooth, with few spines at top only.
EcologyIn McKinley Park to over 1,750 meters. Described from Kamchatka.
Hultén's Flora About

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.