| Stellaria laeta Richards. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Stem ascending, loosely tufted, glabrous or somewhat pubescent; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute, often somewhat pubescent; flowers solitary, in axis of green, leaflike bracts; short branches or buds often in same axis; sepals scarious-margined, ovate to lance-ovate, ciliated in margin and often some- what pubescent on back; capsules longer than sepals, pale brown to black. | ||
| Ecology | Stony places in the mountains and on tundra. |
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.