| Gentiana aleutica Cham. & Schlecht. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gentianella propinqua subsp. aleutica (Cham. & Schlecht.) Gillett. | ||
| Description | Glabrous, yellowish-green; stem up to 10 cm tall, often with shorter, slender, basal, flowering branches; basal leaves oblanceolate, obtuse; cauline leaves broad, ovate, more or less clasping; inflorescence more or less capitate; flowers compressed, with broad, ovate bracts; 2 of the calyx lobes broad, obovate-lanceolate, 2 nar- rower, reflexed at tip; corolla twice as long as calyx, yellow or bluish-yellow, tetram- erous, acuminate, slightly dentate in apex; capsule ovate-lanceolate, as long as corolla. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, rare. |
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.