| Silene menzieesii Hook. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Stems several, from long, slender, branched rootstock, glandular-pubescent; leaves elliptic-lanceolate to ovate- or obovate-lanceolate, acute, glandular-pubescent, ciliolate; pedicels slender, 1-4 cm long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-7 mm long, glandular, with acute teeth; petals small, somewhat longer than calyx, with claws narrower than blades, the blades 2-3 mm long; carpophores about 1.5 mm long; seeds black, shining; some flowers staminate, others pistillate. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. Described from Straits of Juan de Fuca, Slave 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.