| Saussurea tilesii Ledeb. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Stem low, from short caudex; leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, dentate, green and sparsely glandular-dotted above, white-tomentose beneath, the upper some- times exceeding the dense, silky-pubescent inflorescence; involucral bracts ovate- lanceolate, acute; flowers purplish; receptacle with long, shiny scales; pappus white to brownish. | ||
| Ecology | Tundra and mountain slopes. Described from Kamchatka. |
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.