| Mertensia drummoendii (Lehm.) G. Don | |||
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| Family | Boraginaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Lithospermum drummondii Lehm. | ||
| Description | Stems from dark-brown caudex; basal leaves long-petiolated, oblong-lanceolate, evenly pubescent from short, tuberculate hairs, glabrous beneath; upper stem leaves broader, sessile; inflorescence crowded; pedicels glabrous or with few hairs; calyx glabrous, the lobes broadly lanceolate, ciliate in margin; corolla blue, the tube about as long as the calyx, the lobes rounded, undulate in margin, emarginate in sinuses; filaments dilated above; style included; nutlets rugulose. | ||
| Ecology | Sandy slopes. Described from northwest North America. |
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.