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Oreostemma elatum
(Greene) Greene
Family:
Asteraceae
Plumas Mountaincrown
[
Aster elatus
(Greene) Cronquist]
Dean Taylor
FNA
Resources
Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
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.
Flowering Jul-Aug. Bogs, marshy areas, wet meadows; of conservation concern; 1000-1500 m; Calif.
Oreostemma elatum
is known only from north-central Plumas County and perhaps adjacent Lassen County.
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