| Minuartia yukonensis Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Minuartia laricifolia | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose; stems several, erect, branched or unbranched, glandular; leaves linear-subulate, glabrous, nerveless, sparsely and shortly ciliated in margin; pedicels glandular; sepals ovate-lanceolate, blunt, 3-nerved, scarious at tip; petals one and a half times as long as sepals; capsule somewhat longer than calyx; seeds reniform, tuberculate on back. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places, scree slopes. Total range unknown; probably occurs also in the Rocky Mountains. |
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.