| Stellaria crassifolia Ehrh. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Alsine crassifolia (Ehrh.) Britt. | ||
| Description | Stems matted, depressed or diffuse, sometimes ending in buds (f. gemmificans Norman); leaves sessile, slightly fleshy, highly variable in size and form, in arctic specimens small, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, in southern specimens larger, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute (var. linearis Fenzl); flowers solitary or few, in apical or lateral leafy cymes; sepals broadly lanceolate, acute, glabrous or some- what pubescent in margin (var. eriocalycina Schischk.), slightly shorter than petals; petals cleft nearly to base; capsule conical, pale, longer than calyx; seeds wrinkled or rugose. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places, snow beds, from lowlands to alpine region. Described from Germany. |
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.