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Oreostemma elatum

Plumas alpine aster, Plumas mountaincrown, tall alpine-aster
Habit Plants 35–70 cm; stems, leaves, and phyllaries glabrous, eglandular.
Leaf

blades oblanceolate.
Phyllaries

3-nerved (nerves separating phyllary into 4 longitudinal bands), strongly indurate-stramineous proximally;

outer 1.5–2 mm wide proximally.

Oreostemma elatum
Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Bogs, marshy areas, wet meadows
Elevation 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Oreostemma elatum is known only from north-central Plumas County and perhaps adjacent Lassen County.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 20, p. 361.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Oreostemma
Sibling taxa
O. alpigenum, O. peirsonii
Synonyms Oreastrum elatum, Aster elatus
Name authority (Greene) Greene: Pittonia 4: 224. (1900)
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