| Claytonia scammaniana Hulkt. | |||
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| Family | Portulacaceae — APG family: Montiaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Claytonia koliana Gombdcz. | ||
| Description | Plant with filiform rootstock forming loose clumps; basal leaves linear to ob- anceolate, obtuse, fleshy, dilated at base into broad hyaline sheath; stems 1-2- lowered (rarely 3-flowered); stem leaves 2, ovate, opposite; sepals orbiculate; vetals obovate-emarginate, deeply purple-colored. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes and scree slopes in the mountains, to at least 2,000 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.