Coptis aspleniifolia Salisb.
 
FamilyRanunculaceae — APG family: Ranunculaceae
DescriptionLeaves basal, from thick rootstock; stem up to 35 cm high, often branched above; leaves terete, the divisions pinnate, with sharply toothed ultimate segments; scape with hyaline scales at base, mostly 2-flowered; sepals linear-lanceolate, gradually ¢ narrowed to acute tip; follicles long-stipitated, up to 12 in a head, membranaceous, with very short beak.
EcologyMoist places, woods. Described from the northwest coast of North America.
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.