| Cardamine purpurea Cham. & Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Description | Stems 1 to several, from tip of long rhizome; upper stem and pedicels pubescent; leaves sparsely white-hirsute; basal leaves lyrate-pinnate, with 1 to 3 pairs of round leaflets and broad, short apical lobe; stem leaves similar, but smaller, the upper- most entire; petals purple, or white (var. albiflora Hult.), rarely pinkish; siliques 10-15 mm long, glabrous, tapering to short, thick style, with broad stigma. | ||
| Ecology | Wet hillsides, heaths, scree slopes, in the mountains to at least 1,500 meters. |
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.