| Luetkea pectinata (Pursh) Ktze. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Luetkea sibbaldioides Bong., Eriogyna pectinata (Pursh) Hook., Saxifraga pectinata Pursh | ||
| Description | Matted; branches rhizomatous, with marcescent leaves at base; leaves flabellate, glabrous, with several linear, somewhat acute lobes; flowering stems erect, with smaller leaves; branches of inflorescence pubescent; calyx lobes triangular; petals obovate, white. | ||
| Ecology | Close to snow in the subalpine or alpine zone. 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.