| Alyssum americanum Greene | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Alyssum sibiricum, Alyssum biovulatum N. Busch | ||
| Description | Canescent, with very dense, stellate hairs; stem suffrutescent, tufted, from long taproot, leaves spatulate-obovate, somewhat acute; sepals ovate-lanceolate, scarious- margined at tip; petals pale yellow to yellow, with long claw; both long and short stamens with long, thin scale at base; silicles obovate to orbicular, 2-seeded, stellate- pubescent, with long, slender style. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel banks. |
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.