| Crepis chrysantha (Ledeb.) Turcz. | |||
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| Family | Compositae — APG family: Asteraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Hieracium chrysanthum Ledeb. | ||
| Description | Stem simple or rarely with 1-2 branches, from short rootstock with remains of withered leaves above; basal leaves several, oblanceolate to obovate, somewhat acute, more or less dentate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above; stem leaves 2-3, small, oblong, lanceolate to linear, sessile; heads large, mostly single; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, densely covered with long, dark, viscid hairs; ligules yellow, about 3 mm broad; pappus white. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, tundra. Described from Altai. |
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.