| Impatiens noli-tangere L. | |||
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| Family | Balsaminaceae — APG family: Balsaminaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stem erect; leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, cuneate at base, coarsely crenate-serrate, with 10-15 obtuse, mucronate teeth on each side; flowers both nor- mal and cleistogamous, bright yellow with small brown spots; lower sepal gradually tapering into slender, curving spur; fruit a capsule, which explodes at touch when ripe. | ||
| Ecology | Wet ground. Described from Europe and Canada. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of I. capénsis Meerb. |
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.