Lagotis glauca

Gaertner

Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14(1): 534, plate 18, fig. 2. 1770.

Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 295. Mentioned on page 296.

Perennials 6–35 cm; rhizomes short, stout. Stems 1 or 2 (or 3), unbranched, fleshy. Leaves: basal long-petiolate; cauline short-petiolate or sessile. Spikes capitate to cylindric, 15–77 mm, elongating in fruit to 4–14 cm; bracts enlarging post-anthesis. Flowers: calyx lobe margins entire or ciliate; style exserted.

Distribution

N.W.T., Yukon, Alaska, Asia (Russian Far East), Asia (Siberia)

Discussion

Subspecies 3 (2 in the flora).

Subspecies minor (Willdenow) Hultén occurs in Eurasia.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Basal leaf blades broadly obovate-oblanceolate, apices rounded or obtuse, sometimes subacute, margins crenate-dentate; filaments to 1.5 mm. Lagotis glauca subsp. glauca
1 Basal leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate, apices obtuse or subacute, sometimes acute, margins entire or dentate to serrate; filaments 2+ mm. Lagotis glauca subsp. lanceolata

"elongating" is not a number.

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Reidar Elven +  and David F. Murray +
Gaertner +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
leathery +  and not fleshy +
post-anthesis +
enlarging +
tubular +
sessile +  and short-petiolate +
ovoid +, globular +, ellipsoid +, urceolate +, tubular +, cylindric +, less rotate +  and salverform +
N.W.T. +, Yukon +, Alaska +, Asia (Russian Far East) +  and Asia (Siberia) +
drupe-like +
curved +  and straight +
1 +  and 4 +
drupe-like +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
poricidal +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
terminal +  and axillary +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
ciliate +  and entire +
serrate +, dentate +  and entire +
crenulate +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
5 +  and 4 +
Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. +
minute +
globular +
Illustrated +
capitate;cylindric +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (7.7 cm77 mm <br />0.077 m <br />) +
climbing +  and scrambling +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
ascending;erect +
Gymnandra +
Lagotis glauca +
species +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +