| Senecio yukonensis Pors. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Senecio alaskanus Hult. | ||
| Description | Stem mostly single, floccose, pubescent, from thick, short rhizome; basal leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, entire or remotely sinuate-dentate, glabrescent in age; stem leaves reduced, linear; heads 3-6 in dense, aggregate, yellowish-lanate to brownish-lanate inflorescence, glabrescent in age; involucral bracts lanceolate- linear, acute, often dark purplish; ligules pale yellow, short; achenes ribbed, gla- brous; pappus dirty white. | ||
| Ecology | Heaths, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. |
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.