| Romanzoffia sitchensis Bong. | |||
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| Family | Hydrophyllaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Description | Stems several, from short caudex; basal leaves round to reniform, shallowly cleft or toothed, glabrous on both sides, somewhat viscid-ciliate, the petioles conspicu- ously dilated at base; pedicels slender, longer than calyx; calyx lobes lanceolate to obovate; corolla about 3 times as long as the glabrous calyx, with oval lobes; style 2-5 mm long; capsule oblong-ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, from sea level to the lower alpine region. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Similar to a Saxifraga species in habit and often mistaken for one, but the fruit is a round capsule rather than 2 follicles. |
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.