| Stellaria edwardsii R. Br. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Stellaria ciliatosepala Trautv. | ||
| Description | Stems ascending, loosely tufted, glabrous or somewhat pubescent in lower part; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, glabrous or sometimes some- what pubescent; flowers in few-flowered cymes, in axis of scarious or scarious- margined bracts, sometimes solitary; sepals scarious-margined, ovate, mostly glabrous except in the ciliated margin, somewhat shorter than petals; capsule dark-colored, longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Stony places in the mountains and on tundra. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A similar plant occurring in the interior, with the back of the sepals profusely pubescent, has been called S. “Laxmannii”; its status is obscure. |
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.