| Erigeron humilis Graham | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Erigeron unalaschkensis (DC.) Vierh., Erigeron pulchellus var. unalaschkensis DC. | ||
| Description | Plant with short caudex; stem single, erect, villous with often dark hairs; basal leaves villous, oblanceolate to spatulate; cauline leaves reduced; heads solitary; in- volucral bracts narrow, appressed, woolly-villous, with purplish to blackish cross- walls of hairs; ligules white, in age bluish-violet; pappus white or tawny; achenes more or less pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Snow beds, meadows. Described from cultivated specimens grown from seeds from the Canadian Arctic. |
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.