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Overview
Comprehensive Description
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Distribution
National Distribution
Canada
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Physical Description
Morphology
Comments
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Description
- Flora of North America @ eFloras.org
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Diagnostic Description
Synonym
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Eurybia sibirica
Public Records: 4
Species: 9
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Conservation
Conservation Status
Wikipedia
Eurybia sibirica
Eurybia sibirica, commonly known as the Siberian aster or arctic aster, is an herbaceous perennial native to north western North America and northern Eurasia, stretching from Scandinavia to Canada. It is found largely in open areas of subarctic boreal forests, though it is also found in a wide variety of habitats in the region. It is similar in appearance to Eurybia merita, but their ranges only overlap near the border between the US and Canada, where E. sibirica is generally found at higher elevations. The flowers emerge in the summer and display white to pale purple ray florets as well as and yellow disc florets that become purplish as they mature.
Distribution and habitat
E. sibirica is present in much of the subarctic region of world, from western North America through Siberia and to Scandinavia. Its range stretches from the northern Rocky Mountains beginning in the south in Idaho and Montana, north to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, farther into the North West Territories and Nunavut, west to Yukon and Alaska,[2] across the Bering Strait into Siberia and continuing west through Russia and into Norway.[3] It is found at heights ranging from sea level up to 2200 metres in sandy or gravely soils in disturbed or open areas of boreal forests. It is also present in wet meadows, in open areas of aspen and spruce woods and along riparian thickets. In addition, it is common growing in sandy or gravelly stream flats, along stream banks and the shores of lakes, on bluffs, in sand dunes and other sandy places, and in both sub-alpine and mountain meadows.[2]
References
- ^ "Eurybia sibirica". NatureServe Explorer. NatureServe. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Eurybia+sibirica+. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
- ^ a b Brouillet, Luc (2006), "Eurybia sibirica", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+, Flora of North America, 20, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 370, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242321661
- ^ Tutin, T.G.; V. H. Heywood; N. A. Burges; D. H. Valentine; S. M. Walters; D. A. Webb, ed., "Aster sibiricus", Flora Europaea, Cambridge University Press, http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Aster&SPECIES_XREF=sibiricus&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK=
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Names and Taxonomy
Taxonomy
Comments: Under Kartesz's (1999) treatment, this taxon excludes material that he formerly (1994) included in Aster sibiricus as Aster sibiricus var. meritus, and A. sibericus var. giganteus. (It apparently includes some, but not all, of the material he treated as A. sibericus var. pygmaeus in 1994.) Thus, Eurybia sibirica is narrower in concept than Aster sibiricus in the Kartesz 1994 sense.
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