| Epilobium luteum Pursh | |||
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| Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
| Description | Stems simple or branched from near the base, from stout, long, creeping and branching rhizome; basal leaves small, soon withering; stem leaves numerous, over- lapping, subsessile, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute, glabrous, glandular-serrate- dentate; sepals lanceolate; petals yellow, longer than calyx; stigma with oblong- ovate lobes. | ||
| Ecology | Borders of ponds, along streams. Described from the northwest coast of North America. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A very showy plant. Similar specimens with pink flowers are said to be the hybrid E. luteum X glandulosum (E. Treleasianum Lév.). |
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.