| Erigeron caespitosus Nutt. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems several, from branched caudex, curved or decumbent at base, hirtellous with short, spreading hairs; leaves hirtellous, the basal more or less 3-nerved, oblanceolate or spatulate, obtuse; stem leaves several, gradually reduced; heads solitary or few; involucral bracts white-pubescent; ligules white to pink or lavender; pappus double, tawny; achenes pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places in the lowlands; in the mountains to at least 1,300 meters. Described from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. |
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.