| Papaver lappenicum subsp. occidentale (Lundstr.) Knaben | |||
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| Family | Papaveraceae — APG family: Papaveraceae | ||
| Synonyms | Papaver kluanensis D. Love, Papaver radicatum subsp. lapponicum Tolm., Papaver freedmanianum D. Love., Papaver radicatum subsp. occidentale Lundstr. | ||
| Description | Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong in outline, pinnate, the lowest pair of pinnae some- what widely separated; pinnae ovate-lanceolate; flowers cup-shaped or campanu- late; petals deciduous, mostly yellow, rarely white; capsule pear-shaped to elliptical, seldom shorter or nearly spherical; stigmatic disk vaulted or flat, the rays sometimes decurrent. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy, gravelly soil; to at least 2,600 meters in the St. Elias Range. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map gives tentative range of entire species complex. |
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.