Polygonum caurianum Robins.
 
FamilyPolygonaceae — APG family: Polygonaceae
DescriptionSimilar to P. aviculare, but stem filiform, leaves smaller, blunt, distinctly stipitate; pedicels often as long as calyx; calyx with distinct purplish margin. A fairly char- acteristic relative of P. aviculare.
EcologyGravel bars along rivers, waste places; probably native. Known only from locali- ties marked on map.
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notes
Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related or possibly identical P. humifiisum Pall.
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.