| Cryptantha spiculifera (Piper) Payson | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oreocarya spiculifera Piper. | ||
| Description | Caespitose; stem strigose, hirsute and setose with long, white hairs; leaves linear- oblanceolate, somewhat acute, strigose; petioles long-ciliate; inflorescence setose, with long white hairs; calyx strigose and setose; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, ex- ceeding nutlets; corolla white, the tube equaling the calyx; nutlets lanceolate, acute, muriculate-rugose on both surfaces. | ||
| Ecology | Stony, calcareous slopes. Within area of interest, known only from Mission Bluff, Eagle area. |
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.