| Koenigia islandica L. | |||
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| Family | Polygonaceae — APG family: Polygonaceae | ||
| Description | Annual; plant more or less reddish (in arctic dwarf specimens, entirely red), glabrous; stem from a few mm up to (in southern localities) 15 cm long, often branched; leaves elliptic to ovate, blunt; flowers single or in small heads; calyx greenish-white with 3, occasionally 4, lobes; stamens as many as lobes. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places with bare earth, snow beds, in McKinley Park to at least 1,300 meters. |
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.