| Myosotis alpestris subsp. asiatica Vestergr. | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Myosotis asiatica (Vestergr.) Schischk. | ||
| Description | Stems 1 to several, with withered leaves at base; basal leaves obovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, long-petiolated, pubescent with more or less appressed hairs, less so beneath; stem leaves several, sessile, oblong to lanceolate; inflorescence short; pedi- cels about as long as calyx; calyx with straight, not hooked hairs and ovate-lanceolate teeth; corolla blue, rarely white; nutlets black, blunt, shiny. | ||
| Ecology | Alpine and subalpine meadows, to at least 1,500 meters. M. alpestris described from the Sudet Mountains (Czechoslovakia), subsp. asiatica from Kamchatka. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. State flower of Alaska. |
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.