| Stellaria humifiisa Rottb. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Alsine humifusa (Rottb.) Britt. | ||
| Description | Plant glabrous, yellowish-green; arctic specimens densely matted with short inter- nodes and ovate, small, fleshy leaves; southern specimens loosely caespitose, with larger lanceolate-oblong, somewhat acute, sessile leaves and long internodes; branches rooting at lower internodes; flowers lateral or apical, short-peduncled, single or in few-flowered, leafy cymes; sepals ovate-lanceolate, blunt, shorter than petals but longer than, or as long as, capsule; seeds smooth. | ||
| Ecology | Wet seashores. Described from Scandinavia. |
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.