| Silene repens Patrin | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Silene purpurata Greene, Silene repens subsp. purpurata (Greene) Maguire & Hitchc. | ||
| Description | Short-pubescent; stems several, erect, up to 30 cm tall, sometimes reddish; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliated, in several pairs; inflorescence branched, sometimes congested; calyx purplish, pubescent, with blunt or somewhat acute teeth, hyaline- tipped; petals about twice as long as calyx, cleft to one-third the length; capsule with pubescent carpophore. | ||
| Ecology | Rocky slopes, meadows, subalpine forests. Described from Siberia. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. australe Hitchc. & Maguire. |
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.