© Dave Ingram (Photo ID #17206)
General:
Perennial herb from a branched creeping rhizome; stems stout, erect or ascending, several, branched, moderately or more usually long-hairy with flattened hairs, sometimes reddish, 20-60 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves well-developed and larger than the stem leaves or reduced or lacking, rather thick with an expanded, clasping base, 2-3 times pinnately cut, the ultimate segments with indistinctly winged axis of the inflorescence and blunt or rounded tips; stem leaves similar, smaller, alternate, 5-20 cm long, 2-5 cm wide.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, several, terminal on the branches in a short, flat-topped inflorescence; involucres 4-6 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate to oblong, firm except for the papery margins and tip; ray flowers yellow, few; disk flowers yellow, 5-toothed, glandular.
Fruits:
Achenes squared off at the top, 5-angled, ribbed, glandular-dotted; pappus a minute, somewhat lobed crown.
Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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Elevation
(metres) |
8 | 0 | 15 |
Slope
Gradient (%) |
2 | 0 | 9 |
Aspect (degrees) |
275 | 270 | 280 |
Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
1 | 1 | 2 |
Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
A | ||
#
of field plots species was recorded in: |
8 | ||
Modal
BEC Zone Class |
CWH | ||
All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
CWH(8) | ||
Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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