| Arabis lyallii S. Wats. | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Arabis drummondii var. alpina S. Wats., Arabis drummondii var. lyallii Jepson | ||
| Description | Caespitose, with branched caudex; stems simple or several, glabrous; basal leaves numerous, fleshy, lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with short, branched hairs, ciliate with simple hairs at base; cauline leaves several, linear-lanceolate; sepals obovate, glabrous; petals purplish, twice as long as sepals; siliques glabrous, linear, with short, thick style; seeds with narrow wing. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows and ridges. Described from “Fort Colville to the Rocky Moun- tains” (Ashnola River, Cascade Mountains, Washington). |
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.