| Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. | |||
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| Family | Liliaceae — APG family: Liliaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Uvularia amplexifolia L. | ||
| Description | Stem mostly hispid at base, forking, from short, stout rhizome with thick pubes- cent roots; peduncles simple or forked; perianth white or yellowish-white (never pink); fruit red. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods, alder thickets. Described from Europe. Young shoots can be eaten raw; the berries are also edible. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Within area of concern, 4 weakly differentiated varieties occur: var. denticulatus Fassett, with minutely denticulated leaf margin (the only variety common in the Aleutians); var. americanus Schult. [subsp. americanus (Schult.) Love & Lovel], with leaf margin entire; var. papillatus Ohwi [subsp. papillatus (Ohwi) Love & Love], with denticulate leaf margin and smaller flowers (Hoonah); and var. chalazatus Fassett, with leaf margin entire and with numerous small papillae on lower side of leaf (Curry). Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species com- plex; var. amplexifolius occurs only in Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.