| Sagina nodosa (L.) Fenzl | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Spergula nodosa L. | ||
| Description | Dark green, caespitose, with short, sterile stems and procumbent or erect, gla- brous or glandular, flowering stems; leaves linear, short-mucronate; cauline leaves diminishing upward, the upper shorter than the internodes, with dense axillary leaf fascicles; sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse; petals white, about twice as long as sepals; capsule longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. Described from Europe. |
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.