| Arnica chamissonis Less. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems solitary, from long, caudate rhizome, pubescent, glandular above; leaves mostly sessile, lanceolate, oblanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, serrate-dentate; invo- lucrum with septate hairs and also with coarse, short, moniliform hairs; involucral bracts lanceolate, obtuse or somewhat acute, conspicuously pilose at top; ligules 15-20 mm long, pale yellow; disk flowers hirsute and glandular to glabrate; pappus stramineous to tawny, subplumose; achenes glabrous or sparsely pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | On circumpolar map the range of the closely related A. sachalinénsis (Regel) Gray (A. chamissonis var. sachalinensis Regel) is indicated by broken line. |
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.