| Dryas integrifolia M. Vahl | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Description | Matted; leaves needlelike or flat, short and small, entire in margin or toothed only near base, rugose, dark green and mostly lustrous above [or white-canescent, f. canéscens (Simm.) Fern. (D. integrifolia var. canescens Simm.) ], densely white- tomentose beneath, with strongly revolute margin; scapes tomentose and often with long, dark glands; flowers solitary; calyx with long, dark glands; sepals narrow, acute; petals creamy white; styles elongating, plumose. | ||
| Ecology | Heath on tundra and in the mountains, solifluction soil, to at least 1,300 meters. Described from Greenland. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrid swarms with subsp. sylvatica and with D. octopetala common. |
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.