Saussurea angustifolia var. angustifolia
Plants 10–40 (–50) cm. Stems usually simple, ± thinly arachnoid. Leaves mostly 2–8 mm wide; basal blades linear or narrowly elliptic, margins entire or denticulate, glabrous or abaxially thinly arachnoid; cauline linear or oblong, crowded or well separated, usually not surpassing heads. Heads crowded or in ± open arrays. Phyllaries unequal in 3–5 series; outer usually 1.5–2 times longer than wide. 2n = 26, 52.
Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Moist to dry sites, arctic and alpine tundras, bogs, riverbanks, grassy slopes, willow thickets, spruce forests
Elevation: 10–1300 m
Distribution
B.C., N.W.T., Nunavut, Yukon, Alaska, Russian Far East (Chukotka)
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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short-tailed +
darker purple +
introrse +
connate +
acute +
scarious +
acute +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
elliptic +
acute +
hairy +
barbellate +
connate +
longer +
falling +
coarse +
absent +
actinomorphic +
monomorphic +
3mm;4mm +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
8;22 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
Moist to dry sites, arctic and alpine tundras, bogs, riverbanks, grassy slopes, willow thickets, spruce forests +
discoid +
crowded +
indeterminate +
2;10 +
homogamous +
not spiny +
persistent +
falling +
surrounding +
ovoid;campanulate or more or less turbinate +
sessile +
alternate +
scarious +
ovate +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
brownish +
persistent +
falling +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
many +
unequal +
acute +
connate +
stigmatic +
short-papillate +
oblong;linear +
Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. +
1810 +
absent +
bristly +
convex;flat +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
3;5 +
subequal;strongly unequal +
alternate +
simple +
arachnoid +
few +
2-branched +
ringed +
enlarged +
Saussurea angustifolia var. angustifolia +
Saussurea angustifolia +
variety +
perennial +