Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky MountainsBrown, Stewardson
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Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Brown, Stewardson
Mountain plants -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
Woolly throughout; stems simple, 6 inches to 2 feet high. Leaves
narrowly oblong in outline, bi-pinnately dissected into numerous small
linear divisions. Heads numerous, crowded into a rather contracted
cyme; involucre oblong, nearly ¼ of an inch high; bracts lanceolate,
green with brown translucent borders; rays 4—5, white, broadly obovate,
notched and spreading, about the length of the involucre.
Open ground, slopes and meadows throughout the region; flowering during
July.
[Sidenote: =Chrysanthemum leucanthemum= L. _Ox-eye Daisy. White Daisy._]
Smooth, simple, 1—3 feet high, often tufted, the branches nearly
erect. Leaves smooth, the basal oblong or spatulate, coarsely dentate
or incised, narrowed into long, slender petioles; stem-leaves mostly
sessile or partly clasping, 1—3 inches long, linear, pinnately-incised
or toothed, the uppermost small, nearly entire. Heads few or solitary,
1—2 inches broad on long naked peduncles, rays 20—30, white and
spreading; disc flat, bright yellow, bracts of the involucre lanceolate
or obtuse, smooth with translucent margins.
In open ground throughout the region; flowering during July.
[Sidenote: =Artemisia frigida= Willd _Pasture Wormwood._]
Simple or branching, silky-hairy and silvery throughout; stems numerous
and spreading, about a foot high. Leaves mainly twice ternately divided
into linear crowded lobes. Heads globular, about ⅛ of an inch in
diameter, numerous, in more or less racemose heads; involucre pale,
greenish-yellow, woolly; bracts narrow and herbaceous.
In open dry ground and on banks throughout the Rockies at the lower
altitudes; flowering in July.
[Sidenote: =Artemisia discolor= Dougl. _Green Wormwood._]
Stems slender, 9—12 inches high, spreading from a woody base. Leaves
pinnately parted into narrow, linear or lanceolate, entire or spreading
cut divisions and lobes, white beneath with cottony hairs, green and
nearly smooth above. Heads ⅛ of an inch high, numerous in a wand-like
panicle; involucre hemispherical-campanulate, greenish and smooth or
nearly so, 20—30 flowered.
On Rocky slopes throughout the region; flowering in June or July.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria lanata= (Hook.) Greene. _Alpine Everlasting._]
Densely white-woolly; stem simple, 2—6 inches high. Lower leaves
spatulate-lanceolate, 1—1½ inches long, the upper linear with
conspicuous papery tips. Heads several in a close cluster at the end
of the stem, ½ an inch high; involucre nearly ¼ of an inch high,
conspicuously woolly at the base, the inner bracts with conspicuous
white tips, the outer straw-colour or greenish.
An alpine plant in meadows and on slopes from 7000 feet up; flowering
during July.
[Sidenote: =Antennaria pulcherrima= (Hook.) Greene. _Tall Alpine
Everlasting._]
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