| Silene stenophylla Ledeb. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted, with stout taproot; stems several, straight, glabrous; basal leaves numerous, slightly ciliated, linear, with long petioles; stem leaves in pairs, connate at base; flowers single or in few-flowered cymes; calyx inflated, glabrous, with tri- angular, blunt or somewhat acute teeth; petals pale lilac, one and a half times as long as sepals; capsule ovate. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky and sandy slopes. Reported from “Arctic America.” Described from Siberia. |
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.