| Senecio fuscatus (Jord. & Fourr.) Hayek | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Senecio integrifolius var. lindstroemii Ostenf., Tephroseris fuscata Jord. & Fourr., Senecio lindstroemii (Ostenf.) Pors., Senecio tundricola Tolm., Senecio bivestitus Crong., Senecio denalii Nels. | ||
| Description | Densely arachnoid-tomentose or villous-tomentose when young; stems from short caudex; basal leaves broadly oblanceolate to ovate, obtuse to somewhat acute, sessile or short-petiolate, entire or irregularly toothed; upper leaves reduced, the uppermost lanceolate; heads large, single to several; involucral bracts lanceolate, purplish; ligules up to 20 mm long, orange, yellow, or with purplish stripes; achenes more or less pubescent. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of S. fuscatus in a broad sense. |
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.