| Rosa nutkana Presl | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Rosa aleutensis Crep. | ||
| Description | Small shrub; leaflets odd-pinnate, with 5-7 serrate to doubly serrate leaflets, sparsely long-haired below; stem nearly unarmed or with large infrastipular, straight, flat prickles, broad at base; sepals long, caudate, puberulent and glandular on back; flowers solitary, large, up to 7 cm in diameter, pink; hips globose to pyri- form. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with R. acicularis occur where ranges overlap. In Asia, the closely re- lated R. amblyotis C. A. Mey. and R. davurica Pall. occur; broken line on circum- polar map indicates ranges of these closely related taxa. |
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.