General:
Annual or rarely biennial herb from a fibrous root; stems erect, branched, finely-appressed straight-hairy, to moderately stiff long-hairy, sometimes almost glabrous, 30-70 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves mostly oblanceolate or elliptic, tapering to the stalks, entire or toothed, 2-15 cm long, 3-25 mm wide, often deciduous, hairy like the stems; stem leaves similar, becoming reduced upwards.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, several to numerous in an open inflorescence, the disk 5-12 mm wide; involucres 2-5 mm tall; involucral bracts finely and obscurely glandular and more or less hairy, subequal, abruptly sharp-pointed or with long-pointed tips, with brown midveins and light greenish or yellowish margins; ray flowers 50-100, white, sometimes pink or bluish, 2-6 mm long, 0.4-1.0 mm wide; disk flowers 1.5-2.6 mm long.
Fruits:
Achenes 2-nerved, hairy; pappus double, the inner of 10-15 fragile bristles, these lacking from the ray flowers, the outer of short bristles or scales.
Flower Colour:
White
Blooming Period:
Late Spring
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present from Spring to Summer
Source: The USDA
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
699 | 76 | 1038 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
48 | 10 | 68 |
Aspect (degrees) |
197 | 38 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 2 | 4 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
10 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ICH | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BG(1), ICH(3), IDF(2), PP(1) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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