| Taraxacum scanicum Dahlstedt | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Leaves with dark-purplish petioles, deeply lobed, dentate between lobes; lobes attenuate, acute; involucrum dark green; outer involucral bracts broad, with in- distinct tubercle below apex, distinctly scarious-margined, soon reflexed; ligules dark yellow; achenes small, brownish brick-red, with narrow, cylindrical beak. | ||
| Ecology | An introduced weed belonging to the section ERyTHROSPERMA. Described from the province of Scania, southern Sweden. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates approximate, very tentative range of entire section ERYTHROSPERMA. |
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.