| Gnaphalium uliginosum L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem diffusely branched from base (or simple in small specimens) from thin root; basal leaves wanting; stem leaves spatulate-oblanceolate to linear, white- tomentose; heads small, about 3 mm high, exceeded by leaves, in sessile terminal clusters; involucral bracts brownish, scarious, lanceolate; flowers yellowish; pappus 1-rowed. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map gives range of G. uliginosum in a broad sense, including several geographical races. |
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.