| Stellaria calycantha (Ledeb.) Bong. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Alsina borealis subsp. calycantha, Stellaria borealis Bigel., Arenaria calycantha Ledeb. | ||
| Description | Stem ascending, weak, branching, glabrous or slightly scabrous; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acute, minutely ciliate near base; flowers solitary in forks of stem or in few-flowered cymes, with glabrous bracts: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute; petals shorter than sepals or usually lacking; capsule much longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. Described from eastern Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A polymorphous plant. Circumpolar map indicates range of the entire species complex. |
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.