| Microsteris gracilis (Dougl.) Greene | |||
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| Family | Polemoniaceae — APG family: Polemoniaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gilia gracilis Dougl., Phlox gracilis (Dougl.) Greene. | ||
| Description | Stem branched and glandular above; leaves entire, the lower opposite, spatulate to oblanceolate, short-petiolated, the upper alternate, lanceolate, sessile; flowers small, white to purplish-pink, usually in pairs in upper axils; calyx lobes acute; corolla with slender tube and ovate to obcordate lobes; stamens shorter than corolla; capsule globose to ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | An occasionally introduced weed. Described from western North America. |
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.