| Aster commutitus (Torr. & Gray) Gray | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aster elegantulus Pors., Aster multiflorus var. commutatus Torr. & Gray, Aster ericoides var. commutatus (Torr. & Gray) Boiv. | ||
| Description | Stems from short rhizome, erect, pilose with appressed hairs, branched above; leaves linear, entire, sessile, sparsely pubescent above, pubescent beneath, hispidu- lous-ciliate; heads small, several; involucral bracts in 2 series of equal length, acute, glabrous, scabrous in margin, the inner white at base; ray flowers white to pale lilac; pappus white. | ||
| Ecology | Alkaline soil. Total range uncertain. Described from northwest 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.