| Parnassia kotzebuiei Cham. & Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Celastraceae | ||
| Description | Rootstock short; basal leaves ovate, elliptic, or deltoid-ovate; stem leafless or with leaf close to base; calyx lobes lanceolate-oblong, 3-5-nerved; petals elliptic- lanceolate, 3-nerved, as long as calyx lobes; staminodia a thin scale, entire or with mostly 5 gland-tipped segments. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, thickets, along creeks, in the mountains to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Unalaska, Kotzebue Sound, and St. Lawrence Bay (Chukchi Peninsula). |
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.