| Primula borealis Duby | |||
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| Family | Primulaceae — APG family: Primulaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Primula parvifolia Duby, Primula chamissonis E. Busch., Primula tenuis Small | ||
| Description | Leaves sometimes very small, sometimes larger, cuneate-obovate, mostly long- petiolated, remotely toothed to nearly entire, efarinose or slightly farinose beneath; scapes short in flowering specimens, elongating in fruit; bracts linear, acute, more or less saccate at base; pedicels somewhat larger than bracts; calyx cleft halfway down, with acute to obtuse lobes; corolla lilac, more rarely (in the mountains) white, the tube as long as the calyx or longer, the limb 7-20 mm in diameter, with obcordate lobes. | ||
| Ecology | Saline shores along the sea. Described from Shishmaref Bay, Alaska, and St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | A highly variable plant; specimens with long or short style occur. The doubtfully distinct P. Kawasimae Hara occurs in Sakhalin. |
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.