| Crepis elegans Hook. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Youngia elegans (Hook.) Rydb., Borkhausia elegans (Hook.) Nutt. | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stems usually branched, several, from taproot and short caudex; basal leaves spatulate to ovate, entire, coarsely toothed or rarely laciniate; stem leaves narrow, reduced; heads cylindrical, narrow, several at ends of branches; outer in- volucral bracts broadly lanceolate to ovate, broader than in C. nana, the inner oblong, obtuse, scarious-margined; ligules yellow; achenes with long, slender beak, ending with flat disk when ripe, nearly beakless when young; pappus white. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel; to at least 1,000 meters. Described from “Battures of the Assiniboine R.” (where it does not occur). |
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.