| Mertensia paniculata (Ait.) G. Don | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Pulmonaria paniculata Ait. | ||
| Common name | bluebell, lungwort | ||
| Description | Stems solitary or several, from branched caudex; basal leaves ovate, obtuse, or somewhat acute, with long, winged petioles, ciliated and more or less tuberculate- pubescent on both sides; cauline leaves narrower than the basal, acute, gradually reduced, subsessile; calyx lobes lanceolate-oblong to lance-linear, acute, pubescent on back; corolla blue, in bud reddish, rarely white, the tube much longer than the calyx; filaments short and broad; style somewhat exserted; nutlets rugulose. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, riverbanks; in McKinley Park to 1,700 meters. Described from Hudson Bay. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | (See color section.) |
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.