| Lesquerella arctica (Wormsk.) S. Wats. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Vesicaria leiocarpa (Trautv.) N. Busch, Alyssum arcticum Wormsk., Lesquerella arctica var. purshii S. Wats., Lesquerella arctica subsp. purshii (S. Wats.) Pors., Vesicaria arctica subsp. leiocarpa Trautv., Vesicaria arctica (Wormsk.) Richards., Lesquerella arctica var. scammanae Rollins. | ||
| Description | Several decumbent or ascending stems from short root; leaves silvery, stellate- pannose, the basal more or less petiolated, oblanceolate to spatulate, the upper small, oblanceolate; petals yellow; silicles globose to obovate, glabrous or lepidote-pubes- cent. | ||
| Ecology | Dry slopes and ridges in the mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The southern plant, with larger, long-petiolated leaves and often slightly lepidote- pubescent silicles, may be referred to var. Purshii S. Wats. |
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.