Nothocalais alpestris

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
Microseris alpestris

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 centiemeters 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 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a flower head lined with purple-dotted green phyllaries and containing many yellow ray florets and no disc florets. The fruit is a cylindrical achene up to a centimeter long not including the large pappus of up to 50 hairlike white bristles which may be an additional centimeter in length.

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