| Dryas drummendii Richards. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Common name | yellow dryas | ||
| Description | Stem from long, woody caudex; leaves all basal, oblong-elliptic to obovate, coarse- ly dentate, strongly nerved, green above, white-tomentose beneath, often with minute basal leaflets; calyx with long, dark-stipitate glands, or, rarely, lacking glands (var. eglandulosa Pors.); flower nodding in anthesis, petals yellow, forming tube or funnel when in flower; fruit with long, white plumes. | ||
| Ecology | Gravel bars in rivers, in the mountains to at least 1,100 meters. Described from the Rocky Mountains and Slave Lake. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Some specimens have leaves more or less tomentose above as well as below [var. tomentdsa (Farr) L. O. Williams; D. tomentosa Farr]. (See color section.) |
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.