| Sibbaldia proctiimbens L. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Long, woody caudex; basal leaves ternate, 3-toothed at apex, strigose-pubescent on both sides; stem short; bractlets lanceolate, shorter than the broader calyx lobes; flowers crowded; petals 5, minute, linear-oblong, yellow, shorter than calyx; sta- mens 5. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows, snow beds, grassland, in the Yukon to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Lapland, Switzerland, and Scotland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Alpine specimens depressed; lowland specimens much taller. |
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.