| Aster brachyactis Blake | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Aster angustus (Lindl.) Torr. & Gray, Tripolium angustum Lindl. | ||
| Description | Annual, with taproot; stem simple or branched; leaves linear, entire, glabrous, more or less ciliate at base, heads mostly several; involucre campanulate, with uni- form, ciliate bracts in 2 series; marginal flowers rayless, shorter than styles; pappus surpassing corollas. | ||
| Ecology | Saline soil. Described from the banks of the Saskatchewan River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map tentative; broken line indicates range of the closely related A. ciliatus (Ledeb.) Fedtsch. (Erigeron ciliatus Ledeb.). |
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.