| Chrysanthemum vulgare (L.) Bernh. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Tanacetum boreale Fisch., Tanacetum vulgare L. | ||
| Common name | common tansy | ||
| Description | Strongly scented; stems tough, angled, reddish, from stoloniferous rhizome; leaves dark green, glandular-dotted, pinnate, with deeply pinnatifid leaflets, the ultimate segments lanceolate, acute, sharply toothed, the uppermost leaves sessile, much reduced; heads numerous, discoid; outer involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, with scarious margin, the inner narrower; flowers golden yellow; pappus a short crown. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; an introduced weed. Native in Eurasia, introduced in America. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map includes range of the eastern Asiatic var. boreale (Fisch.) Makino (Tanacetum boreale Fisch.). |
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.