General:
Perennial herb from an enlarged, simple or forked stem-base and a fleshy root; stems erect, 1-3, glabrous or somewhat glandular coarse-hairy, 2-8 dm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate to elliptic or egg-shaped, 3-30 cm long, long-stalked, entire to pinnately cut or toothed with the teeth pointed backwards, the blade obtuse or abruptly sharp-pointed; stem leaves much reduced, usually lanceolate or linear and bractlike.
Flowers:
Heads with strap-shaped flowers, 1-30 in a flat-topped inflorescence; involucres 8-21 mm tall, bell-shaped or top-shaped; involucral bracts more or less glandular-hairy or coarse-hairy (in ours) or glandless, the outer ones narrowly deltoid or lanceolate, the longest less than 1/2 the length of the 10-15 inner ones, these lanceolate or linear, more or less tapering to a slender tip at the apex; ray flowers yellow, 9-18 mm long.
Fruits:
Achenes light to dark brown, 3.5-7.5 mm long, slender, mostly 10-ribbed, tapering to a slender tip (in ours) or sometimes short-beaked above; pappus white, of hairlike bristles.
Flower Colour:
Yellow
Blooming Period:
Late Spring
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present over the Summer
Source: The USDA
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
967 | 850 | 1270 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
10 | 0 | 40 |
Aspect (degrees) |
176 | 88 | 300 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
3 | 1 | 5 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
10 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
IDF(10) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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