| Arenaria longipedunculata Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arenaria humifusa | ||
| Description | Matted, with filiform, subterranean, light-colored runners; leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, blunt or somewhat acute, slightly ciliated at base; flowering stems thick, erect, glandular-puberulent, always 1-flowered, with pair of ovate, acute bracts below middle; sepals ovate, obtuse, or somewhat acute, glabrous or glandu- lar-puberulent, indistinctly 3-nerved about as long as petals; capsule ovate, nar- rower at tip, slightly longer than calyx, opening with 3 or 6 teeth; styles 3; seeds brown, suborbicular, shmy, rugulose, 0.7-0.8 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel moist places in the 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.