| Agoseris aurantiaca (Hook.) Greene | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Troximum gracilens Gray., Troximum aurantiacum Hook., Agoseris gracilens (Gray ) Ktze. | ||
| Description | Glabrous or somewhat villous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, subentire to pinnatifid; heads single; outer involucral bracts oblong, short, the inner lanceolate; flowers orange, turning purple in age; achenes abruptly tapering into slender beak, half the length of the body or longer. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, in the mountains, to over 1,000 meters. Described from the Rocky Mountains. |
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.