| Saxifraga aleutica Hult. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Common name | aleut saxifrage | ||
| Description | Densely caespitose to matted; leaves succulent, spatulate, glabrous and nerveless, densely compressed at ends of branches; flowering stem very short, glandular, ex- ceeded by leaves; sepals ovate-triangular, obtuse, glandular in margin; petals el- liptic to spatulate, about as long as calyx lobes, greenish-yellow; carpels ovate, with very short style and large stigmas. | ||
| Ecology | High mountains of the Aleutian Islands. |
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.