| Saussurea viscida Hult. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem low, from short caudex, slightly floccose at base, viscid-pubescent from septate hairs, especially above; lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire or remotely denticulate, sessile or short-petiolated, pubescent on both sides from multicellular, viscid hairs, densely viscid-ciliate in margin, not floccose, the upper leaves reduced; inflorescence compressed; receptacle squamate; involucral bracts triangular to lan- ceolate-triangular, acute, the outer shorter and broader; pappus plumose; achenes glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places on tundra. S. viscida described from Sevoonga (St. Lawrence Island). |
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.