| Melandrium noctiflorum (L.) E. Fries | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Silene noctiflora L. | ||
| Description | Viscid-villous; lower leaves spatulate; stem leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, the upper sessile, acute; flowers few, in open cyme, opening at night, fragrant; calyx cylindric to conical, in age inflated; petals creamy white, dirty white, or rose- colored, one and a half times longer than calyx, deeply cleft into obcordate lobes; capsule ovate. | ||
| Ecology | Introduced weed. 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.