Geocaulon lividum (Richards.) Fern.
 
FamilySantalaceae — APG family: Santalaceae
SynonymsComandra livida Richards.
DescriptionRootstock filiform, creeping, reddish; stem simple; leaves alternate, membrana- ceous, elliptic to narrowly obovate; flowers sessile; drupe solitary, scarlet when ripe, oblong to globose.
EcologyDry places, poplar flats, in McKinley Park to about 600 meters. Described from 54°N to Great Slave Lake.
UsesThe fruit is edible.
Hultén's Flora About

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.