| Swertia perennis L. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stem straight, simple, from oblique caudex; basal leaves long-petio- lated, elliptic to oblong-elliptic or obovate, entire; upper stem leaves sessile, alter- nate or in pairs, somewhat acute; calyx cleft nearly to base, the 5 lobes lanceolate- acuminate; corolla lobes acute, longer than calyx, each with 2 stout glands, grayish- blue, mottled, variable in color, rarely white. | ||
| Ecology | Supalpine meadows. Described from Switzerland and Bavaria. |
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.