| Taraxacum alaskanum Rydb. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Taraxacum lyratum | ||
| Description | Leaves with purplish petioles and short, retrorse, acute, more or less approximate lateral lobes, the apical lobe triangular, acute; involucrum campanulate; involucral bracts dark, lacking horns, the outer small, acute; marginal ligules yellow, grayish- green beneath; achenes brown, 3.5-4 mm long, tuberculate and short-spinulose above, rugulose in middle, smooth at base, with beak 5.5-6 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Alplne slopes, tundra. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | On circumpolar map, range of the very closely related T. sibiricum is 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.