Taraxacum laurentianum Fernald (Q3186)

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Taraxacum laurentianum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum
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Taraxacum laurentianum Fernald
Taraxacum laurentianum is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Taraxacum

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    taxon/id/Taraxacum laurentianum Fernald
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    Taraxacum laurentianum Fernald
    Taraxacum laurentianum
    Fernald
    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
    Taraxacum laurentianum
    pissenlit du golfe du Saint-Laurent (French)
    pissenlit du Saint-Laurent (French)
    pissenlit laurentien (French)
    Gulf of St. Lawrence dandelion (English)
    Laurentian dandelion (English)
    Gulf of St. Lawrence dandelion (English)
    pissenlit du golfe du Saint-Laurent (English)
    1 reference
    Marie-Victorin, Fr. 1995. Flore laurentienne. 3e éd. Mise à jour et annotée par L. Brouillet, S.G. Hay, I. Goulet, M. Blondeau, J. Cayouette et J. Labrecque. Gaétan Morin éditeur. 1093 pp.
    Newfoundland, CA
    1 reference
    Meades, S., S.G. Hay & L. Brouillet. 2000. Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published in association with A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm (consulted 2009-09-02) http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm
    Flowering summer.
    calcareous
    seashore meadows
    gravelly seashores
    turfy areas
    seaside taluses
    sandy riverside meadows
    boreal forest zone
    coastal
    Plants 10–42 cm;
    taproots branched.
    Stems 1–5+, erect to ascending, purplish, (usually exceeding leaves), glabrate to sparsely villous, sometimes more densely so distally.
    sessile to ± broadly winged-petiolate;
    blades oblanceolate (some younger leaves ± runcinate at least proximally), 10–30 × 2–4 cm, bases cuneate to attenuate, margins sometimes ± deeply lobed (younger leaves), usually toothed, larger teeth well developed, lobelike, retrorse to antrorse, lanceolate to triangular or sometimes deltate, sometimes double, acuminate, apices obtuse, faces adaxially sparsely pilose or glabrate (denser on midveins), abaxially glabrous or glabrate.
    Calyculi 15–18, ascending, later spreading and recurving, greenish or purplish, broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate (herbaceous) bractlets in 2–3 series, 15–21 × 3.5–5.5 mm, margins hyaline, often purplish, narrowly scarious, apices long to short-acuminate, strongly horned, tips purplish, scarious, erose.
    Involucres green, broadly campanulate, 18–26 mm.
    Phyllaries 18–25 in 2 series, lanceolate (outer) to ovatelanceolate (inner), 2.5–5.2 mm wide, margins scarious narrowly or not (outer) to broadly so proximally and narrowly distally (inner), apices long-acuminate (sometimes tapered), strongly horned, tips scarious, purplish black, erose.
    Florets ca. 150+;
    corollas yellow (abaxially gray-striped, becoming purplish in drying), 14–25 × 0.8–1.5+ mm.
    Cypselae grayish-olivaceous to tan or olivaceous straw, bodies oblanceoloid to obovoid, 3.2–4 mm, cones narrowly conic, 0.9–1.2 mm, beaks slender, 10–17 mm, ribs 5 (wide) –14 (narrow), faces proximally ± tuberculate (sometimes ribs smooth), muricate in distal 1/3–1/2;
    pappi creamy, 8–9.5 mm. 2n = 40 [unpublished].