| Tiarella trifoliata L. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Common name | lace flower | ||
| Description | Stems from stout, dark-brown rootstock; basal leaves long-petiolated, with sti- pules at base, 3-foliate, the leaflets sharply crenate-dentate, the terminal 3-lobed; stem glandular-pubescent; sepals ovate, acute, glandular; petals white, linear, subulate, 3 to 4 times as long as calyx lobes; carpels nearly equal when young, un- equal in age. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, forests. Described from northern Asia (where it does not, however, occur) ; type locality probably Kayak Island, Alaska. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Transitions to T. unifoliata not observed within area of concern. |
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.