| Eritrichium splendens Kearney | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted; base of stem covered with marcescent leaves; leaves narrowly oblanceolate to linear, densely strigose, especially beneath; racemes few-flowered; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate to oblong; flowers about 10 mm in diameter; corolla lobes intensely blue, broadly obovate to orbicular; scales yellow; tube broad, about as long as calyx, pale; style as long as body of nutlet; nutlet very finely tuberculate or granulate, with crown of jagged and hispid teeth about one-third as long as body. | ||
| Ecology | Rock crevices, to at least 2,000 meters. |
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.