| Agrostemma githago L. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Common name | corn cockle | ||
| Description | Annual, with tall, erect stem and narrow, opposite leaves; flowers solitary or few; sepals formed into 10-ribbed tube with 5 narrow, spreading teeth, much longer than petals; petals 5, purplish-red, with long, pale claw; capsule ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places, roadsides; an occasionally introduced weed, probably not persistent. Described from Europe. |
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.