| Silene acaulis L. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Silene acaulis var. excapa (All.) DC., Silene acaulis subsp. arctica Love & Love | ||
| Common name | moss campion | ||
| Description | Densely tufted to pulvinate; stem densely covered with short, flat leaves, ciliated with stiff hairs; calyx glabrous, mostly reddish; peduncles short; petals purple (rare- ly white); capsule as long as calyx or somewhat longer. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy soil, ridges, to at least 2,200 meters. Described from Lapland, Austria, Switzerland, and the Pyrenees. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of the entire species complex, subsp. subacaules- cens excluded. |
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.