Biology:Nothocalais alpestris

Nothocalais alpestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Nothocalais
Species:	N. alpestris
Binomial name
Nothocalais alpestris (A.Gray) K.L. Chambers
Synonyms
Agoseris alpestris (A.Gray) Greene Agoseris barbellulata (Greene ex A.Gray) Greene Microseris alpestris (A.Gray) Q.Jones ex Cronquist Troximon alpestre A.Gray

Nothocalais alpestris is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name alpine lake false dandelion. It is native to the Cascade Range and nearby ranges in the western United States, where it grows in subalpine forest and meadow habitat. It is a perennial herb growing from a thick caudex and reaching about 25 cm (10 in) tall. The leaves are located around the base of the stem and have toothed, wavy, or smooth edges, and sometimes a thin coat of small hairs. They measure up to 20 cm (8 in) long. The inflorescence is a flower head covered with purple-dotted green phyllaries and containing many yellow ray florets and no disc florets. The fruit from each floret is a cylindrical achene up to 1 cm (¹⁄₂ in) long, not considering the large pappus of up to 50 hairlike white bristles which may be an additional centimeter in length.

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• "Nothocalais alpestris". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=NOAL2. 
• Chambers, Kenton L. (2006), "Nothocalais alpestris", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA), 19, New York and Oxford, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250067456 

Wikidata ☰ Q9050826 entry