| Achillea ptarmica L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Common name | sneezeweed | ||
| Description | Stem from creeping, woody rootstock, glabrous below, hairy above; leaves linear- lanceolate, sessile, acute, sharply serrulate, serrulations with cartilaginous and den- ticulate margin; heads in lax corymb; involucral bracts lanceolate to oblong, blunt, with green center and reddish-brown, scarious margins; ray flowers white, disk flowers greenish-white. | ||
| Ecology | Described from temperate Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Double forms escaped from cultivation in Alaska. Highly variable. Circumpolar map gives range of A. ptarmica in a broad sense. |
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.