General:
Perennial herb from a taproot and a short to long, little- to much-branched stem-base; stems erect, simple to much-branched, with stiff, spreading hairs, often also finely glandular and slightly sticky, especially beneath the heads, 5-30 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate, gradually tapered to the stem-bases, stiff-hairy, sometimes sparsely so, 2-8 cm long, 1-8 mm wide, fewer and soon deciduous in larger forms; stem leaves similar or sometimes lacking, reduced upwards.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary to numerous, sometimes as many as 75, the disks 7-15 mm wide; involucres 4-7 mm tall; involucral bracts sparsely to densely spreading stiff-hairy, subequal to equal, the tips long-pointed, green with brown midveins and sometimes narrow, papery margins; ray flowers 50-100 or more, usually white, sometimes pale pink or blue, 6-15 mm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide; disk flowers 3-5 mm long.
Fruits:
Achenes 2-nerved, sparsely to moderately short-hairy; pappus double, the inner of 15-27 bristles, the outer of well-developed scales, sometimes intermingled with the inner bristles.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
815 | 319 | 2100 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
16 | 0 | 170 |
Aspect (degrees) |
188 | 0 | 360 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
2 | 0 | 7 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
C | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
383 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
IDF | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
BG(110), ESSF(11), IDF(130), PP(114), SBS(2) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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