| Petasites palmatus (Ait.) Gray | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Nardosmia speciosa Nutt., Tussilago palmata Ait., Nardosmia palmata (Ait.) Hook. | ||
| Description | Plant with slender rhizomes and stolons; flowering stem preceding leaves; stam- inate inflorescence soon shriveling, the pistillate elongating; leaves reniform to suborbicular, cleft to more than two-thirds toward base into 5-7 sharply toothed and cleft lobes, green and glabrous above, shiny white-tomentose beneath; flowers creamy white. | ||
| Ecology | Swampy places, moist woods. Described from Newfoundland. |
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.