| Cerastium fischerianum Ser. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cerastium rigidum Cham. & Schlecht. | ||
| Description | Coarse, densely pubescent, with stiff, divaricate or retrorse hairs; stem thick, erect, with leafy runners at base; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to ovate; flowers in terminal, fairly dense, subumbellate inflorescence; bracts herbaceous; sepals lanceolate, acute, narrowly scarious-margined, hirsute; petals deeply notched, longer than sepals; capsule much longer than sepals, somewhat curved. | ||
| Ecology | Wet shores. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A variable species forming hybrids with C. Beeringianum. |
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.