| Minuartia ressii (R. Br.) Graebn. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Minuartia rolfii Nannf., Arenaria rossii R. Br., Alsine rossii (R. Br.) Fenzl | ||
| Description | Glabrous or nearly so; pulvinate, with short pedicels, in exposed arctic or high- alpine specimens; loosely tufted, with longer pedicels, in less exposed habitats [var. élegans (Cham. & Schlecht.) Hult. [Arenaria elegans Cham. & Schlecht.; M. elegans (Cham. & Schlecht.) Schischk.)]; leaves linear, blunt, triangular in cross section; fascicles of leaves in axils, which sometimes form globular buds [var. orthotrichoides (Schischk.) Hult. (M. orthotrichoides Schischk.)]; sepals ovate, acute, 3-nerved, purplish; petals from slightly shorter to slightly longer than calyx; capsule spherical, about as long as sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Rock slides, dry ridges in the mountains, and moist places on tundra. Described from Melville Island. |
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.