Apargidium boreale (Bong.) Torr. & Gray | |||
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Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
Synonyms | Microseris borealis (Bong.) Schultz-Bip., Leontodon boreale (Bong.) DC., Apargia borealis Bong., Scorzonella borealis (Bong.) Greene. | ||
Description | Glabrous or nearly so; stem from short caudex with several taproots, scapose, with 1-2 small bracts, often somewhat arcuate; basal leaves narrowly lanceolate, entire or remotely toothed; heads solitary; involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely dark-pubescent; receptacle naked; flowers yellow; pappus brownish, the bristles connected at base, capillary, barbellate. | ||
Ecology | Wet meadows. |
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.