Minuartia rubella (Wahlenb.) Graebn.
 
FamilyCaryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae
SynonymsArenaria rubella (Wahlenb.) Sm., Arenaria verna var. propinqua Fern., Alsine hirta (Wormsk.) Hartm., Alsine rubella Wahlenb., Arenaria verna var. rubella (Wahlenb.) S. Wats., Alsinopsis propinqua (Richards.) Rydb., Arenaria verna var. pubescens Fern., Arenaria propinqua Richards.
DescriptionDensely tufted, bluish-green; basal shoots with densely crowded, subulate, 3- ribbed leaves; stem filiform, branched, densely glandular; sepals lanceolate, acumi- nate, 3-nerved, longer than the white, obtuse, sometimes reddish petals; capsule slightly longer than sepals.
EcologyRocky and sandy places in arctic lowlands and in the mountains. Regarded as calciphile.
Hultén's Flora About

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.