| Douglasia ochotensis (Willd.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Primulaceae — APG family: Primulaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Androsace ochotensis var. arctica Kurtz, Androsace vegae Kunth., Androsace ochotensis Willd., Androsace arctica Cham. & Schlecht., Androsace tschuktschorum Kunth | ||
| Description | Forming dense cushions; branches covered with marcescent, brown to reddish- brown leaves; leaves linear, light green when young, 5-10 mm long, ciliate in mar- gin, covered with scattered, short, simple, (rarely forked) hairs; pedicels short in flower, prolonged in fruit, puberulent; calyx lobes triangular to ovate, somewhat acute to obtuse; corolla pink to purple with obovate lobes. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes in the mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In flower very early; the flowers completely conceal the tuft at flowering time. |
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.