| Senecio atropurpureus (Ledeb.) Fedtsch. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cineraria atropurpurea Ledeb. | ||
| Description | Stems low, from stout rhizome, tomentose, glabrescent in age; leaves mainly basal, entire, ovate to obovate, thinly tomentose; cauline leaves narrow, reduced upward; heads solitary; involucrum white-tomentose and with septate, purplish hairs; ligules 1-2 cm long, yellow; achenes glabrous or nearly so. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows on tundra. Described from Siberia. |
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.