| Thlaspi arcticum Pors. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous, with short, many-headed caudex; basal leaves spatulate, with promi- nent midvein, reddish below; stems short in flowering state, elongated in fruit; stem leaves 3-5, linear, sessile; pedicels divaricate, about as long as silicles; petals twice as long as sepals, white or faintly lilac; silicles clavate, with filiform style about 1 mm long. | ||
| Ecology | Very rare; only single specimens collected. Described from Arctic coast of Yukon Territory. |
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.