| Senecio lugens Richards. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Senecio imbricatus Greene. | ||
| Description | Stem usually solitary, glabrescent, from stout rhizome; basal leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, denticulate to nearly entire, nearly glabrous; cauline leaves few, reduced, sessile; inflorescence corymbose; peduncles with several linear bracts above; heads several; involucrum arachnoid, pubescent to glabrous; involucral bracts broadly lanceolate, with black, triangular tip, dark-pubescent at apex; ligules up to 16 mm long, usually much shorter, yellow; achenes glabrous; pappus white. | ||
| Ecology | In the mountains to at least 2,000 meters in the Yukon. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The species name alludes to the type locality: “Bloody Fall, where the Esquimaux were destroyed by the Northern Indians that accompanied Hearne.” |
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.