Melandrium taylorae (Robins.) Tolm.
 
FamilyCaryophyllaceae — APG family: Caryophyllaceae
SynonymsMelandrium affine var. tenellum Tolm., Lychnis taylorae Robins., Melandrium tenellum Tolm., Lychnis furcata subsp. elatior Maguire
DescriptionPlant light green; stem tall, straight, thin, pubescent; basal leaves linear-oblanceo- late; stem leaves sparsely pubescent, in 2-3 pairs, as long as or sometimes longer than basal leaves; flowers mostly 2-3 together; calyx viscid-pubescent, somewhat inflated in age; petals longer than calyx, white to dirty white; seeds small, with narrow wing.
EcologyMeadows, dry places. Described from Peel River, Mackenzie Delta.
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.