Geum glaciale Adams
 
FamilyRosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae
SynonymsSieversia glacialis (Adams) R. Br., Novosieversia glacialis (Adams) Bolle.
DescriptionStem from long, thick, woody caudex; basal leaves short-petiolated, pinnate with 11-15 leaflets; leaflets with few teeth, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, densely yellowish, long-pubescent beneath; stem with long, spreading hairs; flowers very large, up to 45 mm in diameter; bractlets linear-lanceolate, much shorter than calyx lobes, often numerous; petals yellow, ovate, abruptly clawed; anthers small; nutlets long-haired; styles about 2.5 mm long at maturity of fruit, with long, spreading hairs in lower part, glabrous at tip.
EcologyStony slopes, dry heaths. Flowers very early.
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.