| Senecio pauciflorus Pursh | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem 1.5-3 dm tall, glabrous or floccose, from caudex; leaves chiefly basal, round- ish to elliptic-ovate, subentire to crenate, with truncate base; stem leaves reduced, toothed to pinnatifid; heads few, lacking ligules; flowers orange or reddish; in- volucral bracts reddish to purple; achenes glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, wet places. Described from Labrador and the Carolinas. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. fallax Greenm. (S. indecorus Greene), with more numerous heads and mostly yellow flowers, occurs in the lowlands. Circumpolar map indicates range of S. pauciflorus 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.