| Stellaria ruscifolia subsp. aleutica Hult. | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Description | Glabrous; loosely tufted; leaves thick, coriaceous, densely crowded, ovate-lanceo- late to ovate or subcordate, acute; flowers solitary, terminal, long-pedicellated; sepals lanceolate-ovate, acute, scarious-margined, half as long as petals. | ||
| Ecology | Along creeks in the mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. ruscifolia. |
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.