| Erigeron pumilus Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems hirsute with spreading hairs, several from taproot and short caudex; leaves linear or narrowly oblanceolate, reduced upward; heads solitary to several; involu- cral bracts densely spreading, hirsute and finely glandular; ligules white or pink to lavender or blue; pappus double. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes. Described from the sources of the Platte, and from the Rocky Moun- tains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The single collection from our area may be referred to subsp. intermédius Crong. |
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.