Epilobium lactiflorum Haussk. | |||
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Family | Onagraceae — APG family: Onagraceae | ||
Description | Plant light green; stem mostly simple, with long internodes, somewhat pubescent above; leaves thin, glabrous, the middle and lower leaves petiolated, ovate-oblong, blunt, sparsely toothed flowers few, small, white; young pod drooping, sparsely pubescent; seeds smooth. | ||
Ecology | Along streams, at springs. Described from inhomogenous material from northern Europe, Greenland, and America. | ||
Taxonomy notes | A much misunderstood species. Total range very uncertain. |
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.