| Aster yukonensis Crong. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems several, decumbent, from short caudex, sparsely villous and somewhat glandular above; leaves linear, the upper clasping, glabrous or nearly so, acute or acuminate; heads solitary to few; involucral bracts acute to attenuate-acuminate, glandular and more or less villous with flattened hairs; ligules blue to purplish; achenes pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Mud flats, saline soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related A. pygmaéus Lindl. |
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.