| Rumex arcticus Trautv. | |||
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| Family | Polygonaceae — APG family: Polygonaceae | ||
| Description | Stem up to 50 cm (in the Arctic about 10 c¢m) tall, reddish-violet at base; basal leaves long-petiolated, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, blunt, with cuneate or square base, often reddish below; stem leaves acute; inflorescence leafless or nearly so; un- branched or with few upright branches; flowers bisexual; valves entire, without grain. | ||
| Ecology | Common in wet places, snow beds. The arctic counterpart of R. aquaticus L. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. perlatus Hult., with ovate, broad leaves, occurs in the Bering Sea area. | ||
| Uses | Extensively collected, boiled, and preserved for use in the winter by the natives. The leaves are eaten chopped and cooked with fat and sugar by the Siberian Eskimo. |
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.