| Stellaria monantha Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Stem ascending, loosely tufted, glabrous or somewhat pubescent in lower part; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, glabrous; flowers soli- tary, in axis of green, leaflike bracts; sepals scarious-margined, ovate to lance-ovate, glabrous, somewhat shorter than petals; capsule pale brown to black, longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Stony places in the mountains and on tundra, to at least 2,600 meters in the St. Elias Range. |
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.