Arenaria chamissonis Maguire
 
FamilyCaryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae
SynonymsStellaria dicranoides Fenzl, Cherleria dicranoides Cham. & Schlecht., Arenaria dicranoides (Cham. & Schlecht.) Hult.
DescriptionPulvinate, with central taproot; stems branched, densely covered with imbricate leaves; leaves lanceolate to oblong, glabrous, 1-nerved, the lower marcescent; flowers single, short-pedicellated, barely reaching above leaves; sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, 1-nerved, scarious-margined, gibbous; petals lacking or rudimentary; disk scales large, nearly petaloid; capsule ovate-conical, about 2 mm long, as long as sepals, opening with 6 teeth.
EcologyRocks, scree slopes.
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.