| Phlox sibirica L. | |||
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| Family | Polemoniaceae — APG family: Polemoniaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Phlox richardsonii alaskensis (Jordal) Wherry, Phlox sibirica subsp. borealis (Wherry) Shetler., Phlox alaskensis Jordal, Phlox borealis Wherry | ||
| Description | Matted; stem much branched, in lower part covered with remains of leaves or leaf bases; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, more or less pubescent with viscid, septate hairs; flowers 1 or 2 at tops of branches; pedicels and calyx viscid- pubescent, cleft to base with linear-lanceolate lobes; tube of corolla as long as calyx, the lobes bluish violet, broad, rounded. | ||
| Ecology | Calcareous rocks in the mountains, to at least 2,000 meters. Described from northern Asia. |
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.