| Melandrium triflorum (R. Br.) J. Vahl | |||
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| Family | Caryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Lychnis sorensenis Boiv., Lychnis triflora R. Br. | ||
| Description | Low-growing; leaves ovate-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, pubescent, especially in margin; stem with 1 to 2 pairs of leaves, covered with glandular hairs; flowers erect, mostly 3 together; calyx campanulate, with broad, reddish-violet stripes, not inflated in age; petals white to rose-colored. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places. Described from Greenland. |
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.