| Mitella pentandra Hook. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pectinanthia pentandra (Hook.) Rydb. | ||
| Description | Rhizome stout; basal leaves glabrous or sparsely hirsute, ovate-cordate, shallowly 5-9-lobed, the lobes unevenly crenate-dentate, long-petiolated; stem sparsely glan- dular, leafless or with small leaves; inflorescence racemose; calyx lobes triangular, spreading or recurved; petals green, pectinately dissected into 6-10 filiform seg- ments; stamens 5; styles almost lacking. | ||
| Ecology | Moist woods. Described from cultivated specimens from the Rocky Mountains. |
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.