| Arnica diversifolia Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stems simple, from coarse rhizome, nearly glabrous below, glandular and pu- berulent above; leaves pale green, in 3 pairs, the middle pair largest, ovate to ellip- tic, truncate or subcordate at base, obtuse, irregularly serrate-dentate, short stipitate- glandular above, glabrous beneath; heads 3-5; involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, stipitate-glandular; ligules 18-20 mm long, pale yellow; disk flowers short-pilose; pappus stramineous to tawny, subplumose. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Somewhat doubtful; probably a series of hybrids. |
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.