Heads often densely crowded at stem tips. Peduncles 0–5(–10) cm. Involucres 2–4 × 2.5–4 cm, usually densely arachnoid. Phyllary apices widely spreading, long-acicular, spines 5–15 mm. Corollas (15–)18–22 mm, tubes 7–11 mm, throats (4–)5–8.5 mm, lobes (2–)4.5–7 mm; style tips 4–5 mm. Cypselae dark brown, 5–6.5 mm; pappi 20–25 mm. 2n = 34 (as C. edule).

Phenology: Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat: Damp soil, mostly montane meadows, forests, alpine
Elevation: 0–1900 m

Distribution

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B.C., Alaska, Oreg., Wash.

Discussion

Variety macounii ranges from the coastal mountains of southeastern Alaska and British Columbia to Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula, and northern Cascades of Washington, and the mountains of northwestern Oregon.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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