| Taraxacum trigonolobum Dahlstedt | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Taraxacum chamissonis Greene, Taraxacum yezoalpinum Nakai, Taraxacum aleuticum Tatew. & Kitamura, Taraxacum ceratophorum (Ledeb.) DC. | ||
| Description | Petioles pale; leaves lanceolate, with short, broad, triangular to deltoid, entire, acute lobes; terminal lobe small, short, triangular-rhomboid, more or less mucronate; involucrum dark green, the outer bracts greenish-margined, short, ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, appressed, conspicuously tuberculate or horned below apex, the inner linear; ligules yellow, with grayish-violet stripes below; achenes tubercu- late, with beak twice as long as body. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, moist places in the mountains. 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.