| Arenaria capillaris Poir. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arenaria nardifolia | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, with basal runners, covered with withered leaves at base; stems several, straight, glabrous; leaves light green, capillary, glabrous or more or less scabrous in margin, acuminate; inflorescence open, 1-3-flowered; bracts narrowly lanceolate, scarious-margined; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, violet-mar- gined; petals longer than sepals; capsule somewhat longer than sepals. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, sandy hillsides. Described from Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Alaskan specimens belong to subsp. capillaris; subsp. americana Maguire occurs south of the glaciation in western North America (broken line on circumpolar map). The closely related A. tschuktschorum Regel, with shorter leaves, occurs in eastern- most Asia. |
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.