Androsace septentrionalis L. | |||
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Family | Primulaceae — APG family: Primulaceae | ||
Synonyms | Androsace gormani Greene., Androsace arguta Greene | ||
Description | Rosette leaves linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, denticulate to nearly entire, pubescent with minute, branched hairs; scapes of varying length; involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, acute; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, acute; corolla white, about as long as calyx. | ||
Ecology | Dry, rocky, and sandy places in the mountains, to 2,000 meters. Described from the mountains of Lapland and Russia. | ||
Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map indicates range of entire species complex. |
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.