| Symphoricarpus albus subsp. laevigatus (Fern.) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caprifoliaceae — APG family: Caprifoliaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Symphoricarpus albus var. laemgatus (Fern.) Blake, Symphoricarpus racemosus var. laevigatus Fern., Symphoricarpus rivularis Suksd. | ||
| Common name | snowberry | ||
| Description | Erect shrub, up to 2 meters tall, with essentially glabrous twigs; leaves elliptic to elliptic-ovate, entire or obscurely toothed, glabrous above, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent beneath; racemes short, subsessile, few-flowered; corolla pink and white, campanulate, short and broad, nearly as wide as long, pubescent within; fruit berry- like, white, subglobose to elliptic. | ||
| Ecology | Woods, thickets. S. albus described from “Pennsylvania,” subsp. laevigatus from cultivated specimens grown from seeds collected west of the Rocky Mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. albus. |
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.