| Trollius riederianus Fisch. & Mey. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Common name | globeflower | ||
| Description | Stem simple, erect, 1-flowered, with withered leaves at base, from thick root- stock with numerous dark-brown roots; leaves 3—5-parted, with lobed and dentated parts; flowers up to 3 cm in diameter; sepals orange-yellow; petals 5-7 mm long, about as long as stamens; follicles about 10 mm long (the 3-mm-long beak in- cluded), congested into a head. | ||
| Ecology | Moist meadows. Described from Kamchatka. |
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.