Minuartia macrocarpa (Pursh) Ostenf.
 
FamilyCaryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae
SynonymsArenaria macrocarpa Pursh, Arenaria crilloniana W. B. Drew, Alsine macrocarpa (Pursh) Fenzl.
DescriptionMatted, in high-alpine specimens densely so, with densely leaved runners; leaves flat, ciliate, distinctly 3-nerved, variable in form from long and linear to short and broad; pedicels glandular; flowers solitary; sepals oblong, blunt, glandular; petals about twice as long as sepals, white, very rarely rose-colored (var. rosea Hult.); capsule oblong, two to two and a half times as long as sepals.
EcologySandy and rocky slopes and ridges, moist places, mostly in the mountains, to at least 2,150 meters. Described from the west coast of Alaska.
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.