Taraxacum alaskanum Rydberg (Q3178)

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Taraxacum alaskanum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum
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Taraxacum alaskanum Rydberg
Taraxacum alaskanum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum

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    taxon/id/Taraxacum alaskanum Rydberg
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    Taraxacum alaskanum Rydberg
    Taraxacum alaskanum
    Rydberg
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    pissenlit d'Alaska (French)
    Alaska dandelion (English)
    Alaska dandelion (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1019&flora_id=1
    1 reference
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York. http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1019&flora_id=1
    Russian Far East
    Flowering summer.
    alpine slopes
    tundra
    arctic tundra
    rich arctic seaside bluffs
    0–2200 m
    Plants (1.5–) 3–9 (–16, mostly in fruit) cm;
    taproots sometimes branched.
    Stems 1–3+, ascending, proximally purplish, glabrous or glabrate.
    Leaves fewer than 10, horizontal to patent (green);
    blades oblanceolate or narrowly oblong (usually runcinate), (1.5–) 2.2–11.6 × 0.4–2.2 cm, bases attenuate, margins usually lobed regularly, ± deeply, in 3–5 (–6) pairs, occasionally (younger) only toothed or denticulate, lobes usually retrorse, occasionally straight or antrorse, triangular to narrowly triangular, terminals often largest, acuminate to acute-rounded, sometimes toothed, teeth 0 (–1) on lobes or sinuses, triangular, apices obtuse to acute, faces glabrous.
    Calyculi of 7–9, spreading, becoming reflexed to revolute, often purplish, particularly adaxially, ovate to lanceovate or elliptic bracklets in 2 series, 2.5–4.5 × 1.7–2.7 mm, margins not or narrowly scarious, hyaline, apices acuminate to caudate, tips sometimes flaring, scarious, erose, hornless.
    Involucres dark green, often glaucous, often purplish, particularly adaxially, cylindro to narrowly campanulate, 9–14 mm.
    Phyllaries 7–8 in 3 series, lanceolate, 1.4–2.6 (–4) mm wide, margins not scarious (some outer) to narrowly scarious, apices long-acuminate, tips purplish or grayish, often flared, scarious, hornless.
    Florets 30–55+;
    corollas yellow (gray-striped abaxially, sometimes becoming orange purplish with age on drying), outer 11–14 × 1.5–2.4 mm.
    Cypselae maroon to brown or reddish-brown, sometimes grayish, bodies oblanceoloid (sometimes narrowly), 3–3.8 mm, cones conic, 0.8–1 mm, beaks stout, 3–6 mm, ribs 15 narrow (6 prominent), faces proximally ± tuberculate, ± muricate in distal 1/3–1/2 (or less);
    pappi white to yellowish, 4–6.5 mm. 2n = 24, 32 (as T. kamtschaticum).