| Anemone parviflora Michx. | |||
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| Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from long, slender, scaly rootstock, often branched at tip; basal leaves dark green, lustrous, glabrous, divided into 3 lobed and bluntly toothed parts; involucre sessile; stem white-pubescent, 1-flowered; sepals mostly 6, white, ap- pressed-pubescent and bluish at base beneath, much longer than stamens; fruits acute, densely woolly, in globose or ovoid head. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, heaths, stony slopes, snow beds, up to at least 2,000 meters in the St. Elias range, and down to the upper reaches of the forest region. Described from Hudson Bay. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Most specimens belong to var. grandiflora Ulbr with flowers 30-40 mm in diameter, but specimens with flowers 15 mm in diameter also occur. |
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.