Agoseris glauca (Pursh) D.Dietr.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial 1–7 dm, glabrous or nearly so and somewhat glaucous; lvs linear or oblanceolate, 5–35 cm × 1–30 mm, entire or occasionally with a few scattered teeth or shallow lobes; invol bracts imbricate or subequal, mostly sharply pointed, sometimes purple-spotted; fls yellow, often drying pinkish; achenes 5–12 mm, often hirtellous-puberulent, the body tapering gradually to a stout, evidently striate beak up to half as long; 2n=18, 36. Prairies and meadows; w. Minn. and Man. to B.C. and Calif. June, July. We have only the var. glauca, as described above.