| Spergularia canadensis (Pers.) G. Don | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arenaria canadensis Pers. | ||
| Description | Glabrous nearly throughout; stems erect or prostrate; leaves fleshy, blunt; stipules truncate or apiculate, broader than long; sepals ovate, mostly longer than the white or pink petals; capsules longer than sepals; seeds brown, 0.8-1.4 mm long, with erose wing or wingless. | ||
| Ecology | Saline or brackish soil. Described from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of var. occidentalis Rossb. |
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.