| Cerastium beeringidnum Cham. & Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | In arctic specimens matted; stems several, ascending, pubescent from mixed simple and glandular hairs; lowest internodes glabrescent or retrorsely hirsute; leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, with short strigose pubescence; inflorescence a dichotomously branched cyme; pedicels long, with short, patent, glandular or viscid hairs; bracts slightly scarious-margined; inner sepals more broadly scarious-mar- gined than the outer; petals not much longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel and cliffs, from the lowlands at least to 2,000 meters in the St. Elias Range and in the mountains of the central Yukon. |
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.