Saussurea amara var. glomerata

(Poiret) Trautvetter

Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 39(1): 369. 1866.

Introduced
Basionym: Saussurea glomerata Poiret in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl., suppl. 5: 71. 1817
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 168.

Plants 15–60 cm; stout taproots; herbage ± scabrous, ± glaucous. Stems erect, simple or branched, unwinged. Leaves: basal and proximal cauline long-petiolate, smaller distally, blades elliptic, 5–20 cm, bases acute, margins entire to sinuate dentate or shallowly lobed, apices acuminate; mid and distal cauline sessile or short-petiolate, ± bractlike, entire. Heads 2–8 in corymbiform cymes at tips of main-stems and branches; (peduncles to 1–5 cm). Involucres ca. 15 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, strongly unequal, outer ± lanceolate with dark green toothed or lobed appendages, mid ± linear-oblong with expanded, rounded, pink, membranous, toothed appendages, innermost linear, with or without reduced appendages. Receptacles scaly. Florets 8–18; corollas pink or pale-purple, ca. 17 mm; anthers dark purple. Cypselae ca. 3 mm; pappi off-brownish, outer bristles 1–2 mm, inner ca. 10 mm. 2n = 26 (Russia, as S. glomerata).


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Barnyard and garden weed
Elevation: 900–1000 m

Discussion

Saussurea amara var. glomerata was reported (as S. glomerata) from the vicinity of Debolt, Alberta (H. Groh 1943) and was included in The Thistles of Canada (R. J. Moore and C. Frankton 1974). I am not aware of any additional stations, and the persistence of these plants in the Debolt area is unknown.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"fine" is not a number.

short-tailed +
dark purple +
not +  and appendaged +
entire +  and not spine-tipped +
glandular +  and glabrous +
acuminate +
scarious +
toothed +, rounded +, lobed +  and dark green +
reduced +  and expanded +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
David J. Keil +
(Poiret) Trautvetter +
Saussurea glomerata +
compound +  and simple +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
10-nerved or 20-nerved +  and rugose +
actinomorphic +
pale-purple +  and pink +
17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br /> (?) +
corymbiform +
4-5-angled +, cylindric +, angled +  and oblong +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Alta. +  and Asia +
900–1000 m +
eglandular +  and glandular +
glabrous +  and densely tomentose +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Barnyard and garden weed +
in corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
ovoid;campanulate or more or less turbinate +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (?) +
short-petiolate +  and sessile +
cauline +  and mid +
bractlike +
deltate +, usually narrowly triangular +  and more or less linear +
entire +  and dentate +
lobed +, dentate +  and entire to sinuate +
linear-oblong +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
2-carpellate +
off-brownish +
persistent +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
papillate +  and smooth +
distinct +  and fused +
short-papillate +
oblong;linear +
Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou +
naked +  and epaleate +
convex;flat +
roughened +  and smooth +
exalbuminous +
subequal;strongly unequal +
Introduced +
unwinged +, branched +  and simple +
appendaged +  and truncate +
dilated +  and swollen +
enlarged +
Compositae +
Saussurea amara var. glomerata +
Saussurea amara +
variety +
expanded +  and slender +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
19 +, 18 +, 17 +, 16 +, 14 +  and 13 +