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Taxon

Saussurea americana D.C.Eaton

Protologue Bot. Gaz. 6: 283. 1881BHL pageIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 055.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 055.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 057.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 057.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 054.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 054.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 053.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 053.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 051.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 051.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 060.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 060.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 050.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 050.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 058.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 058.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 052.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 052.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 063.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 063.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 056.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 056.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 059.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 059.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 049.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 049.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 061.jpg

Saussurea americana, CDavidson11263--ID. Valley Co. Trail to Box Lake. 8 Jul 08. 061.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Native to Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Yukon (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

Davidson C. 11263

July 8, 2008

Location

United States, Idaho, Valley (Cascade)

44.158, -116.118361

Location Remarks

Highway 55 c. 10 km north of the bridge at Banks. Mixed conifer forest along the N. Fork Payette River.

Collectors

Christopher Davidson

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Asterales

Family

Asteraceae

Genus

Saussurea

Specific Epithet

americana

Authorship

D.C.Eaton

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 0.3

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.0

Global rank

#313,828 of 335,497

Top 94%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →