Anemone narcissiflora subsp. sibirica (L.) Hult. | |||
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Family | Ranunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae | ||
Synonyms | Anemone sibirica L., Anemone narcissiflora var. monantha | ||
Description | More or less villous; smaller than subsp. villosissima; basal leaves 3-parted, the parts cleft into fairly broad, more or less petiolulated ultimate segments; flowers mostly small, sepals oval, bluish on the outside. | ||
Ecology | Snow beds, heaths. A. narcissiflora described from the Alps of Austria and Swit- zerland and from Siberia; subsp. sibirica from Siberia.. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other races of A. narcissiflora not occurring within area of interest. | ||
Uses | The rootstock is eaten raw or boiled by the Siberian Eskimo. |
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.