| Taraxacum phymatocarpum J. Vahl | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Taraxacum pumilum Dahlstedt. | ||
| Description | Leaves elongate-ligulate, entire or minutely dentate, the inner sinuate-dentate with purplish median nerve; involucrum small, blackish; outer involucral bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the inner linear-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse; ligules pale yellow; achenes brown to olivate, uniformly spinulose and muricate, with beak about as long as body or shorter. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine slopes, tundra. |
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.