| Aster subspicatus Nees | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aster foliaceus Lindl. | ||
| Description | Stems from creeping rhizome, low and 1-headed in specimens from exposed places, taller and branched in less exposed or more southern habitats; leaves ob- lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, nearly entire or toothed, glabrous, scabrous in margin, the upper sessile, slightly clasping; heads 1 to several; involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, leafy, ciliate in margin, light-colored and chartaceous at base, not markedly imbricate; ligules purple to violet; pappus tawny. | ||
| Ecology | Subalpine meadows, woods. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable, and forms hybrid swarms with other species to the south. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of closely related taxa in eastern North America. |
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.