| Sagina saginoides (L.) Karst. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Spergula saginoides L., Sagina linnaei Presl. | ||
| Description | Matted, yellowish-green; stems often rooting at basal nodes; leaves markedly acute; pedicels long; fruiting pedicels at first recurved at tip, later erect; sepals with white margin, mostly 5; petals shorter than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Grassy slopes, snow beds. Described from Germany, Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrids with S. intermedia. |
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.