| Taraxacum hyparcticum Dahlstedt | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Description | Similar to T. phymatocarpum, but ligules white, purplish, or brown; only the upper part of the achenes muricate and spinose. | ||
| Ecology | Tundra, high-alpine scree slopes. Described from Greenland and Ellesmere land. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | On circumpolar map, reports of the very closely related T. 4rcticum Dahlstedt are included. |
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.