| Cerastium maximum L. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Stem erect, tall, viscid, pubescent; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, in sterile shoots linear-lanceolate, markedly acute, pubescent on both sides and ciliated in margin; inflorescence aglomerate, terminal; sepals ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, scar- ious-margined; petals white, about 2 cm long, cleft to about one-fourth the length; capsule slender, much longer than sepals, its teeth rolled backward. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, thickets, meadows. Described from Siberia. |
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.