| Erigeron hyperboreus Greene | |||
| |||
| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Erigeron alaskanus Crong. | ||
| Description | Plant spreading-hirsute with septate hairs, sometimes with dark cross-walls; stems single or few, from taproot and short caudex; basal leaves oblanceolate, the cauline linear; heads solitary; involucral bracts equal, viscid-glandular and villous; ligules blue, fading pink, sometimes white; pappus double; achenes villous-hirsute. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks, solifluction soil. Described from Porcupine River, Alaska. |
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.