| Taraxacum carneocoloratum Nels. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Low-growing; leaves oblong-lanceolate, with 3-5 pairs of triangular, somewhat acute lobes; terminal lobe comparatively large, ovate-triangular, blunt; petioles pale at base; heads often woolly at base; outer bracts broadly ovate, purplish, scarious-margined, indistinctly corniculate; ligules up to 18 mm long, about 1 mm broad, pink to flesh-colored; achenes spinulose-muricate at tip, with beak about as long as achene. | ||
| Ecology | High alpine scree slopes; extremely rare. |
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.