Panarctic Flora

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420116c Stellaria longipes taxon edwardsii

Distribution

Kanin - Pechora: Scattered
Svalbard - Franz Joseph Land: Presence uncertain
Polar Ural - Novaya Zemlya: Frequent
Yamal - Gydan: Rare
Taimyr - Severnaya Zemlya: Frequent
Anabar - Onenyo: Scattered
Kharaulakh: Frequent
Yana - Kolyma: Scattered
West Chukotka: Frequent
Wrangel Island: Frequent
South Chukotka: Scattered
East Chukotka: Scattered
Western Alaska: Scattered
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Frequent
Central Canada: Frequent
Hudson Bay - Labrador: Scattered
Ellesmere Island: Frequent
Western Greenland: Frequent
Eastern Greenland: Scattered
Polar desert: Frequent
Northern arctic Tundra: Frequent
Mid Arctic Tundra: Frequent
Southern Arcti Tundra: Frequent
Shrub Tundra: Frequent
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered

GBIF

2n= 36-104 (3x-8x). - Löve and Löve (1975a) referred about six different numbers under the names S. edwardsii and S. ciliatosepala, one of 2n = ca. 52 from North America and the remaining of 2n = 72-104 from European Russia and Siberia.

Geography: Circumpolar ?: NOR? RUS SIB RFE ALA CAN GRL.

Notes: Elven and Petrovsky: We tentatively synonymize the North American name Stellaria edwardsii and the Eurasian name S. ciliatosepala. Hultén (1943a) only mentioned the name S. edwardsii in synonymy of S. ciliatosepala var. arctica. Löve's concept of S. edwardsii was collective and included S. ciliatosepala. The question mark for Norway is due to Chater and Heywood (1993) who accepted this species from Svalbard. As far as we know, only S. crassipes is present in Svalbard (Often 1989).

Higher Taxa