Agoseris glauca

Agoseris glauca
Mount Rainier National Park
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Cichorioideae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Agoseris
Species: A. glauca
Binomial name
Agoseris glauca
(Pursh) Raf.
Synonyms[1]

Agoseris glauca is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy family known by the common names pale agoseris, prairie agoseris, and short-beaked agoseris.

The plant is native to western and northwestern North America from Alaska east to the Northwest Territories and Ontario, south to California, Arizona, and New Mexico. [2] It grows in many habitat types.

Description

Agoseris glauca is a perennial herb which varies in general appearance. It produces a basal patch of leaves of various shapes which may be as long as the plant is high.[3]

There is no stem but the plant flowers in a stemlike inflorescence which is sometimes erect, reaching heights near half a meter or taller. The flower head is one to three centimeters wide with layers of pointed phyllaries. The head is ligulate, bearing many yellow ray florets but no disc florets.[3]

The fruit is an achene with a body up to a centimeter long and a pappus which may be almost 2 centimeters in length.[3]

Varieties[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 The Plant List search for Agoseris glauca
  2. ↑ CalFlora taxon report, University of California: Agoseris glauca
  3. 1 2 3 4 Flora of North America, Agoseris glauca
  4. ↑ CalFlora Database: Agoseris glauca var. glauca

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