| Erigeron glabellus subsp. pubescens (Hook.) Crong. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Erigeron asper var. pubescens (Hook.) Breitung, Erigeron turneri Greene., Erigeron glabellus var. pubescens Hook. | ||
| Description | Densely hirsute or strigose with appressed or spreading hairs; stems erect or curved at base, from branched caudex; leaves oblanceolate, entire or irregularly toothed, acute or somewhat acute, abruptly reduced upward; heads several; in- volucral bracts subequal, linear, acuminate, hirsute or strigose; ligules blue or pink, rarely white; pappus double; achenes halry | ||
| Ecology | Dry meadows. E. glabellus descrlbed from Fort Mandan subsp. pubescens from “the prairies of the Rocky Mountains.” | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. yukonénsis (Rydb.) Hult. (E. yukonensis Rydb.) has narrower leaves and longer and looser pubescence of the involucral bracts. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. glabéllus. |
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.