| Aster modestus Lindl. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aster unalaschkensis var. major Hook., Aster major (Hook.) Porter. | ||
| Description | Stems from creeping rhizome, glandular above; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, remotely toothed to subentire, the upper more or less clasping, the lower soon withering; heads several to numerous; involucral bracts acuminate, glandular, her- baceous; rays purple to violet; achenes sparsely hairy. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, along streams. Described from mouth of the Smoky River, lat. 56°. |
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.