| Hieracium gracile var. alaskanum Zahn | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Similar to H. triste, but more slender and often shorter; heads smaller; involucrum hirsute with shorter, black hairs. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows to at least 1,500 meters. Described from the Rocky Mountains (Drummond). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. alaskanum differs from var. gracile, found in the Rocky Mountains, in usually lacking glands on pedicels and involucrum. H. gracile occurs also in south- ern South America. Intermediates to H. triste are not rare in Alaska and the Yukon. |
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.