| Chrysanthemum arcticum L. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leucanthemum gmelini Ledeb., Leucanthemum arcticum (L.) DC., Dendranthema arcticum (L.) Tsvel., Chrysanthemum arcticum subsp. gmelini (Ledeb.) Kitamura | ||
| Common name | arctic daisy | ||
| Description | Stem simple or branched, from thick, creeping caudex; basal leaves pinnatifid, arachnoid-pubescent at base, with 3-7 blunt, often toothed lobes; stem leaves re- duced, the upper linear; heads solitary or few; involucral bracts green, with brown, scarious margin; rays of marginal flowers up to 2.5 cm long, several-nerved, white; disk flowers yellow. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks along the seashore. Described from Kamchatka and North America. |
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.