Taraxacum alaskanum Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Taraxacum alaskanum Rydb.

  • Description

    Species Description - A low delicate plant with perennial root: leaves linear-oblanceolate in outline, 3-5 cm. long, deeply runcinate-pinnatifid with triangular retrorse lobes: scape 4-5 cm. high: involucre campanuate, 10-12 mm. high, 6-8 mm. broad: bracts fuscous, not corniculate; the inner linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate; the outer scarcely half as long, lanceolate, spreading or somewhat reflexed: achenes brownish, spinulose-muricate above, fusiform, 4 mm. long.

  • Discussion

    This in size and habit most resembles T. scopidomm, but is easily distinguished by its triangular acute lobes. It was found " on steep side bank facing the ocean."

    Alaska : Pt. Barrow, 1 898, Melthenn

  • Distribution

    Alaska

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