| Epilobium leptocarpum Haussk. | |||
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| Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
| Description | Plant small, usually less than 10 cm tall; stem slender, terete, pilose, much branched, with small turions at base; leaves glabrous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse to somewhat acute, in small specimens lacking lateral nerves, with few teeth; petioles winged; flowers white to pink; pods glabrous or sparsely white-pubescent; seeds papillose. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places. Most specimens belong to var. Macounii Trel., with simple stem. E. leptocarpum described from Oregon, var. Macounii from Lake Athabasca. |
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.