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Bolander dandelion, Bolander's mock dandelion

Leaves

6–20 cm, faces glabrous.

Involucres

7–13 mm after flowering.

Florets

10–18 mm, much surpassing phyllaries at flowering, glabrous.

Phyllaries

not reflexed in fruit, margins often red distally, glabrous or minutely puberulent apically.

Cypselae

straight or slightly curved on one side, 3–4 mm, obtusely 3-angled at 1 adaxial and 2 lateral nerves.

2n

= 18.

Phalacroseris bolanderi

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Wet meadows and sphagnum bogs, coniferous upper montane forests and mixed subalpine woodlands
Elevation 1800–3000 m (5900–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

A vestigial coroniform pappus found in some individuals is too minor a feature to merit varietal designation.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 19, p. 374.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Phalacroseris
Synonyms P. bolanderi var. coronata
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 364. (1868)
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