| Potentilla rubricailis L.ehm. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Densely tufted; stems from stout, branched caudex; basal leaves pinnate with 5 leaflets, the basal pair of lateral leaflets smaller than the upper, in small specimens sometimes lacking, glabrous or nearly so above, densely white-tomentose beneath; bractlets oblong-linear; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate; petals obcordate, somewhat longer than calyx; style incrassated and verrucose at base; receptacle strongly pu- bescent. | ||
| Ecology | Dry tundra. |
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.