| Stellaria alaskana Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; leaves compressed at base of the flowering stem or on separate sterile shoots, sessile, ovate-elliptic, somewhat acute, 1-nerved, thick; stems solitary or in loose tufts, 1-2-flowered; bracts scarious or broadly scarious-margined, acute; sepals triangular-lanceolate, scarious-margined, markedly acute, longer than, or as long as, the petals, which are cleft nearly to base; styles 3. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes in the mountains, above 1,000 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.