Panarctic Flora

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864626 The Hieracium laevigatum aggregate

Distribution

Northern Fennoscandia: Rare
Kanin - Pechora: Rare
Yamal - Gydan: Rare
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Rare
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Rare
Western Greenland: Scattered
Eastern Greenland: Rare
Southern Arcti Tundra: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Scattered
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Frequent

2n= (1) 18 (2x). - Europe (Finland). - Jalas and Pellinen (1985).
(2) 27 (3x). - Europe, Russia, Siberia, Canada, U.S.A., Greenland. - Several reports, the Greenland one for H. acranthophorum, those from Canada and U.S.A. for H. scabriusculum or H. canadense.

Geography: Amphi-Atlantic - European - Asian (W): NOR RUS SIB CAN GRL.

Notes: Böcher et al. (1978) indicated that the Greenland microspecies assigned here could belong to two groups - the Hieracium inuloides group (in sect. Foliosa) and the H. laevigatum group (= sect. Tridentata) - but they did not divide species on these groups.

According to Scoggan (1979), a species named H. canadense Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 86 (1803), reaches the Arctic on southeastern Hudson Bay in Quebec. Strother (2006b) included both H. canadense and H. scabriusculum in his widely circumscribed H. umbellatum, probably corresponding to sect. Tridentata. The name H. canadense might have priority for the Canadian species.

The H. laevigatum aggregate is a very large group where there probably are many more microspecies in the Arctic in Norway than those listed below.

Higher Taxa