| Lloydia serotina (L.) Rchb. | |||
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| Family | Liliaceae — APG family: Liliaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Bulbocodium serotinum L. | ||
| Common name | alp lily | ||
| Description | Bulb oblong, covered with a membranaceous gray coat from cordlike rootstock; flowers solitary or more rarely 2 together, about 1 cm long, the segments creamy- white, with prominent purple midvein and numerous shorter, lateral purplish nerves; capsule rounded, bluntly triangular in cross section, 3-celled. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky places, polygon tundra, alpine meadows and heaths, to at least 1,800 meters. Described from England and Switzerland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Subsp. flava Calder & Taylor, which is taller and has petals with yellow base and green or yellow venation, occurs on the Queen Charlotte Islands. |
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.