| Rubus arcticus L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Stems from long, woody, branching rootstock; leaves 3-foliate (rarely with lateral lobes cleft to base, var. pentaphylloides Hult., known from Dawson) ; leaflets often stipitate and somewhat lobed, broadly obovate to rhombic, with broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate stipules; flowers 1-3, the uppermost usually overtopping the leaves; peduncles often glandular; calyx tube pubescent, often with a few glands; sepals short, triangular; petals obovate, short and broad, sometimes emarginate; fruit a globular aggregate of dark purple drupelets, palatable, richly flavored, excel- lent for jam and for flavoring liqueur. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, thickets, along creeks. Described from Sweden, Siberia, and Canada. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with subsp. acaulis and subsp. stellatus where ranges overlap. |
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.