Oreostemma elatum

(Greene) Greene

Pittonia 4: 224. 1900.

Common names: Plumas mountaincrown
EndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Oreastrum elatum Greene Pittonia 3: 147. 1896
Synonyms: Aster elatus (Greene) Cronquist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 361.

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.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Bogs, marshy areas, wet meadows
Elevation: 1000–1500 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

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

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Oreostemma elatum"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Guy L. Nesom +
(Greene) Greene +
decurrent +
Oreastrum elatum +
linear;oblanceolate +
rugulose +  and muricate +
Plumas mountaincrown +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
yellowish +, blue +  and purple +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
cylindric +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1000–1500 m +
strigillose +, glabrous +, stipitate-glandular +  and villous +
oblanceolate;linear-elliptic +
subequal +
indurate +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Bogs, marshy areas, wet meadows +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
oblanceolate +
lanceolate +  and deltate +
oblanceolate +  and linear-elliptic +
subequal +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering Jul–Aug. +
3-nerved +  and eglandular +
indurate-stramineous +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
concave;usually flat;conic +
5 +  and 10 +
exalbuminous +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
decumbent-ascending +  and erect +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Aster elatus +
Oreostemma elatum +
Oreostemma +
species +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +