| Arabis lyrata subsp. kamchatica (Fisch.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arabis kamchatica Fisch., Cardamine lyrata (L.) Hiitonen., Arabis lyrata var. kamchatica Fisch. | ||
| Description | Stem more or less branched from base, glabrous or somewhat pubescent with simple or forked hairs; rosette leaves lyrate, pinnatifid; stem leaves pinnatifid, spatu- late or linear, glabrous or slightly pubescent; petals white or pinkish; siliques linear, glabrous, with short style. | ||
| Ecology | Moist, stony places, scree slopes; common along the southern coast. A. lyrata described from Canada. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. lyrata. | ||
| Uses | The young leaves have a radish flavor and are eaten raw or boiled by the natives. |
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.