Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Saussurea angustifolia (L.) DC. trib. Cardueae |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | stem leaves alternate, linear or lanceolate, petiolate, 5-10mm, spreading, adaxially glabrous, abaxially white lanate, acuminate, capitula few in corymb |
Size | 3-50cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 13-18°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Siberia Russian Far East (Magadan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ASTERACEAE
angustifolia viscida (Hultén) S.L.Welsh, Great Basin Naturalist 28: 152 (1968)
angustifolia yukonensis A.E.Porsild, Bull. Natl. Mus. Canada 101: 28 (1945)
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