| Papaver alaskanum Hult. | |||
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| Family | Papaveraceae — APG family: Papaveraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Papaver nigroflavum D, Love, Papaver denalii Gjaerevoll. | ||
| Description | Similar to P. Macounii, but low-growing, densely caespitose; caudex densely covered with the light-brown, dilated bases of previous year’s petioles; leaf blade short, with blunt to somewhat acute lobes; flower buds short, ovate or almost globose; capsule shorter and broader, often as broad as long. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy, gravelly soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section.) |
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.