| Aster sibiricus L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aster subintegerrimus (Trautv.) Ostenf., Aster salsuginosus Richards., Aster richardsonii Spreng., Aster espenbergensis Nees, Aster montanus Richards. | ||
| Description | Stems from long, creeping, branched rhizome; leaves lanceolate-oblong, serrulate or occasionally subentire in margin, sparsely to copiously pubescent beneath, sca- brous in margin; heads solitary or few; involucral bracts lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, herbaceous, the outer green, squarrose, the inner purplish; ray flowers purplish; seeds pubescent; pappus as long as disk flowers, brownish. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, river flats, meadows, in the mountains to at least 1,800 meters. Described from Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Specimens from the interior lowland are tall and branched, with sharply ser- rulated leaves; those from exposed places are low-growing, with single head and less serrulated leaves. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the related A. meritus Nels. (See color section.) |
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.