| Parnassia fimbriata Konig | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Celastraceae | ||
| Common name | fringed grass-of-parnassus | ||
| Description | Rootstock short, stout; basal leaves reniform-cordate, mostly broader than long, long-petiolated; stem with clasping bract near middle; sepals elliptic, with glan- dular teeth in margin; petals white, cuneate-obovate, attenuated into claw, fim- briate on lateral margins; staminodium carnose, lobed in apex; capsule ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, banks of streams. Described from the northwest coast of North America. |
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.