| Rubus arcticus subsp. stellatus (Sm.) Boiv. emend. Hult. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Rubus stellatus Sm., Rubus arcticus var. stellatus Boiv. | ||
| Description | Similar to subsp. arcticus, but flowers larger; leaves mostly 3-lobed, sometimes nearly entire, orbicular; hypantium pubescent, with yellow glands. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Forms hybrid swarms with subsp. arcticus and subsp. acaulis where ranges overlap (pure in the Aleutian Islands, where the other subspecies are lacking). Hybrids with R. spectabilis also occur (R. alaskensis Bailey). |
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.