Picris hieracioides subsp. kamtschatica (Ledeb.) Hult. | |||
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Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
Synonyms | Picris kamtschatica Ledeb. | ||
Description | Stem thick, straight, branched above, densely setose, with hooked, dark bristles; leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate, serrate, setose; heads several, in corymbose in- florescence; outer involucral bracts short, narrow, recurved, with black hairs, the inner lanceolate; flowers yellow; achenes with short beak; pappus dirty white, in 2 rows. | ||
Ecology | Meadows. P. hieracioides described from Europe, subsp. kamtschatica from Kamchatka. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies of P. hiera- cioides (American occurrences of these subspecies are introductions). |
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.