| Saussurea americana DC. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saussurea pseudofoliosa Lipsch. | ||
| Description | Stem tall and coarse, from stout caudex; leaves lanceolate-ovate, coarsely toothed, the lower petiolated, green above, pale beneath, floccose when young; inflorescence corymbiform, very dense; involucral bracts firm, ovate-lanceolate, with dark edges; flowers purplish; pappus white to brownish. | ||
| Ecology | Moist meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related S. foliosa Ledeb. |
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.