| Melandrium apetalum subsp. arcticum (E. Fries) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Melandrium soczovianum Schischk., Gastrolychnis uralensis Rupr., Melandrium apetalum subsp. attenuatum, Lychnis soczovianum (Schischk.) J. P. Anders., Wahlbergella apetala var. arctica E. Fries | ||
| Description | Stem viscid-pubescent above, usually up to 20 (occasionally 30) cm tall; basal leaves linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, more or less pubescent, especially in mar- gin; stem leaves in 1-3 pairs, narrow, smaller than the basal leaves; flowers single (rarely 2), drooping when young, erect in fruit; calyx ovate, viscid-pubescent; calyx inflated also when young; petals lilac, slightly longer than calyx; seeds large, light brown, with broad wing. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, grassy slopes in the mountains. M. apetalum described from Lapland and Siberia, subsp. arcticum from Spitzbergen. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. glabrum Regel, a local race with robust growth, petals about as long as the calyx, and nearly glabrous leaves, occurs on St. Paul Island. Broken line on circum- polar map indicates range of subsp. apétalum in Scandinavia, and of other closely related taxa in the southern mountains. |
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.