| Veronica stelleri Pall. | |||
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| Family | Scrophulariaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae | ||
| Description | Stem simple, from filiform horizontal rhizome; successive leaf pairs crosswise op- posite, in 4-7 pairs, ovate, dentate-serrate; pedicels longer than flowers; calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acute, pubescent but not glandular; corolla blue to violet, with ovate to broadly ovate lobes; capsule elliptic, slightly emarginate, pubescent. : | ||
| Ecology | Alpine meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. glabréscens Hult., with glabrous or glabrescent leaves, the leaves less dis- tinctly serrulate, might be the hybrid V. Stelleri X Wormskjoldii. |
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.