Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi Onno (Q2144)

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Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi is a taxon with the rank subspecies within the species Aster alpinus
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Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi Onno
Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi is a taxon with the rank subspecies within the species Aster alpinus

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    taxon/id/Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi Onno
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    Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi Onno
    Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Aster alpinus subsp. vierhapperi
    aster de Vierhapper (French)
    Vierhapper's aster (English)
    North American alpine aster (English)
    alpine aster (English)
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    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
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    Porsild, A.E. & W.J. Cody. 1980. Vascular Plants of the Continental Northwest Territories, Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ont. 667 pp.
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
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    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    e Asia (Russian Far East)
    e Asia (e Siberia)
    Flowering early summer.
    open to semishaded
    gravelly
    calcareous
    alpine tundra
    montane to alpine meadows
    cold prairies
    artemisia steppes
    stream banks
    open riparian
    boreal forests
    bluffs
    cliffs
    sandy ridges
    muskeg
    10–3700 m
    Plants 2.5–32 (–40) cm, cespitose;
    rhizomes woody, caudices thick, woody, branched, ± covered with marcescent leaf-bases.
    Stems 1 (per rosette), erect to ascending, simple, ± densely white-villous, becoming nearly woolly near heads, sometimes short-stipitate-glandular proximally, ± densely short or long-stipitate-glandular distally.
    Leaves basal and cauline, margins entire, densely villous-ciliate, faces ± densely villous, ± densely short-stipitate-glandular or (distal mainly) eglandular;
    basal persistent, usually petiolate to subpetiolate, sometimes sessile, blades 3-nerved, oblanceolate or obovate to spatulate, 10–112 × 2.5–14 mm, bases cuneate or attenuate, apices ± acute to rounded;
    cauline usually sessile, lanceolate or lance-oblong to linear-lanceolate or linear, 7–43 (–50) × 1–6 (–8) mm.
    Heads borne singly.
    Involucres broadly hemispheric, 6–11 mm.
    Phyllaries in 2–3 series (usually green, sometimes ± purplish), lanceolate to lance-oblong, subequal, herbaceous, apices acute (outer) to acuminate or ± cuspidate (inner), faces ± densely villous, sometimes ± sparsely short-stipitate-glandular.
    Ray-florets (20–) 25–55 (–95);
    laminae pink, white, or lavender [purple], (9–) 11–17+ × (1–) 1.6–2.4 mm.
    Disc-florets 50–100+;
    corollas yellow turning brown, 5–6 mm, tubes much shorter than funnelform throats.
    Cypselae tan to brown or dark reddish-brown, obovoid, compressed, (2–) 2.5–3.2 mm, 2 marginal ribs plus 0–2 thin nerves on each face, faces ± densely strigillose, sometimes gland-dotted;
    pappi tawny to white, 5–6 mm, about equaling disc corollas.