| Parrya nudicaulis (L.) Regel | |||
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| Family | Cruciferae — APG family: Brassicaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Cardamine nudicaulis L. | ||
| Description | Plant with stout root; caudex with remains of old leaves; stem leafless, pubescent with stout glands; leaves all basal, ovate, oblong to spatulate, sinuate-dentate, with long petiole, usually glabrous on sides, glandular-ciliate in margin; sepals ovate, scarious-margined; petals purple, lavender, or rarely white, cordate to obo- vate, emarginate; siliques acute at both ends, with long style; seeds broadly winged. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, sandy slopes. Described from Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. grandiflora Hult. (McKinley Park, Eagle Summit) has petals about 2 cm long, with long, narrow claw and broad, subcordate lamina. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. turkestanica (Korsh.) Hult. (P. turkestanica) Korsh. |
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.