| Silene douglasii Hook. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Several pubescent or nearly glabrous stems from taproot, stems decumbent at base; leaves oblanceolate, acute, puberulent or glabrous, with prominent midrib; cauline leaves in pairs; flowers in few-flowered cymes; calyx tubular-urceolate, strongly nerved, with ovate-triangular teeth, the teeth with broadly scarious, ciliate margin; corolla yellowish-white or tinged with pink; carpophore 3—4 mm long, pubescent; seeds rugose-tesselate. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places. Described from Grand Rapids of Columbia River. |
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.