Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Rhodiola alaskana Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 39. 1903
Resembling R. integrifolia but usually taller and more slender, often 20 cm. high, usually quite pale and appearing glaucous in herbarium specimens. Leaves oblanceolate, acute, 2-2.5 cm. long, strongly toothed in the upper third, drying very thin ; petals purplish, obtuse ; carpels 4-6 mm. long, gradually tapering into a slender style 1-1.5 cm. long.
' Type locality : Misty Harbor, Nagai Island, Alaska. Distribution : Coast of southern Alaska.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Rhodiola polygama (Rydb.) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot
Gard. 3 : 39. 1903.
Sedum poly gamum Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 28 : 283. 1901.
Rootstock thick, fleshy. Stems rather stout, 1-3 dm. tall ; leaves obovate to oblanceolate, sessile, acute, entire or minutely denticulate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long; cyme dense, darkpurple ; flowers polygamo-dioecious ; calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, 2 mm. long ; petals oblanceolate, 3 mm. long, dark-purple ; filaments about one-half longer than the petals, purple, abruptly narrowed above ; follicles 6-8 mm. long, the ascending or spreading beak about 1 mm. long.
Type locality : West Spanish Peak, Colorado. Distribution : Mountains of Colorado.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
