
growing in dry calcareous gravel Nunavut Salliq Coral Harbour more recent graveyard near town on road to the airport 64°08 13 N 83°09 53 W Aiken and Brysting 01 080 CAN Close up of plant Isolated plant with densely cespitose growth growing in dry calcareous gravel Nunavut Salliq Coral Harbour more recent graveyard near town on road to the airport

plant Plant in fruit stage Note the short fruits with very short styles Canada NWT Banks Island Parker River valley Aug 1999 Photographed by R Elven Voucher in HbCAN and HbO Close up of flowering plant Compact cespitose plant with subcapitate inflorescence Note small narrow petals Norway Svalbard Kolldalsnosa in Sassen Valley Aug 1998 Photographed by A

Jack O Lantern grows in large bunches with the stems attached together at the base cespitose The bunches are often large and found below oak and

May is now at the University of California Davis Department of Animal Science The species was named for Dr S A Edlund Geological Survey of Canada Aiken et al 1995 Illustrations Plant in natural habitat A cespitose single clump of a plant 12 15 cm in diameter with dark purple inflorescences Nunavut Cornwallis Island Resolute Bay Satellite Hill S G Aiken 92

Paratype DAO Large Hierochloë alpinain habitat Robust plant that appears cespitose and possibly without rhizomes Quebec Kangiqsujuak 10 August 1994 J Cayouette DAO Distribution map

plant Compact cespitose plant with subcapitate inflorescence Note small narrow petals Norway Svalbard Kolldalsnosa in Sassen Valley Aug 1998 Photographed by A C Scheen Plant in habitat Plant in calcareous soil with scares and strongly fragmented vegetation Norway Svalbard Kolldalsnosa in Sassen Valley Aug 1998 Photographed by A C Scheen Close

2000 Brysting and Elven 2000 In western North America C arcticum is replaced by C beeringianum a species with which it tends to intergrade in eastern arctic areas Illustrations Close up of plant Isolated plant with densely cespitose growth growing in dry calcareous gravel Nunavut Salliq Coral Harbour more recent graveyard near town on road to the airport

the genus Anthoxanthum and this taxon became A monticolum Bigelow Veldkamp annotated thus on the type specimen but this combination has not been widely taken up Illustrations Habitat At the marker in the foreground a cespitose clump 18 cm at the base Nunavut Axel Heiberg Island Expedition Fiord 0 5 1 km north of McGill University Field Camp large

Luzula campestris L DC Family Juncaceae Stems To +20cm tall erect herbaceous cespitose from fibrous roots with small bulblets at the base multiple from the base Leaves Basal leaves many to +6cm

Symphyotrichum pilosum is native to North America It is an erect stout robust leafy much branched herbaceous that is usually cespitose perennial between one to four feet high

species status was supported in isozyme studies Aiken et al 1993 1995 1997 and by studies of material from Svalbard R Elvan personal communication 1999 Illustrations Habitat Cespitose grasses with dark purple inflorescences growing on gravel solifluction slope N W T Melville Island Ibbet Bay 1985 Close up of plant Plants approximately 8 cm

pluricespitose Caespitose is an alternative spelling of cespitose

cypsela cespitose

been suggested that subsp orthantha occurs in the Canadian Arctic but we have not been able to confirm this U S A New York Whiteface Mt 1917 A S Hitch*** 438 Paratype DAO Large Hierochloë alpinain habitat Robust plant that appears cespitose and possibly without rhizomes Quebec Kangiqsujuak 10 August 1994 J Cayouette DAO Distribution map

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rhizomatous soboliferous pluricespitose