| Cacalia auriculata subsp. kamtschatica (Maxim.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Senecio dauricus var. kamtschaticus Maxim., Hasteola kamtschatica (Maxim.) Pojark., Cacalia auriculata var. kamtschatica (Maxim.) Matsum., Cacalia kamtschatica (Maxim.) Kudo | ||
| Description | Stem from thick caudex; leaves few, large, glabrous or pubescent on veins, reni- form, grossly dentate to shallowly lobed, shiny above, pale below, the upper re- duced; inflorescence branched with few erect branches; heads nodding; involucrum cylindrical, with 4-5 oblong to lanceolate bracts, as long as young flowers; flowers 4-7; pappus long, white. | ||
| Ecology | Thickets, subalpine meadows. C. auriculata described from between Okhotsk and Yakutsk, subsp. kamtschatica from Kamchatka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. auriculata. |
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.