| Aster ladvis L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous or nearly so, more or less glaucous; leaves thick, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, mostly entire, the upper sessile and more or less clasping, strongly re- duced; involucral bracts imbricate in several series, linear to linear-oblong; ligules violet; achenes glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places. Described from North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Extremely variable, especially in leaf form. |
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.