General:
Perennial herb from fibrous roots; stems slender, erect, 0.3-1.0 m tall, solitary, branched above, white-woolly on lower part, with stalked glands on upper part.
Leaves:
Mostly basal, large and thin, 10-30 cm long, 3-15 cm wide, long-stalked, broadly triangular to heart-shaped, green and essentially glabrous above, white-woolly below; margins smooth to coarsely toothed; stem leaves similar to basal, few, alternate.
Flowers:
Heads discoid, small, several to numerous, in a branched, nearly naked, glandular inflorescence; rays lacking; disk flowers whitish, tubular, only the outer 3-7 fertile; involucres 2-3.5 mm tall, the bracts green, glabrous, equal in size, pointing down when mature and eventually deciduous.
Fruits:
Club-shaped achenes, 5-8 mm long, with stalked glands on upper portion; pappus lacking.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
747 | 0 | 1855 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
21 | 0 | 110 |
Aspect (degrees) |
199 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 1 | 7 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
1308 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ICH | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CDF(66), CWH(329), ESSF(22), ICH(726), IDF(72), MH(1), MS(33), PP(1), SBPS(1), SBS(8) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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