| Cerastium regelii Ostentf. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Densely pulvinate; leaves glabrous or slightly ciliated; branches ending with buds, which fall off and root; sepals obtuse, glandular, one-third as long as petals. | ||
| Ecology | Solifluction soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | This high-arctic plant is often sterile, propagating by means of the above-men- tioned buds; one sterile specimen has been collected at Peters’ Lake (eastern Brooks Range), another at Cape Newenham. |
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.