General:
Perennial herb from a creeping rhizome or stem-base; stems erect, stiff-hairy, at least above, simple or branched above, usually reddish-purple, 0.5-1.5 m tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves few, soon deciduous; stem leaves lanceolate to oblong, 6-16 cm long, with clasping, ear-like flanges at the base, distantly toothed or rarely entire, scabrous to glabrous above, often hairy along the midrib below.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, few to more commonly many in a leafy inflorescence; involucres 6-12 mm tall; involucral bracts slender, loose, scarcely graduated, some of the outer sometimes leaflike but narrow; ray flowers 30-60, blue, rarely white or rose, 7-12 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes glabrous or nearly so; pappus white.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
432 | 420 | 445 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
0 | 0 | 0 |
Aspect (degrees) |
0 | ||
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 3 | 6 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
D | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
2 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
BWBS | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BWBS(2) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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