420117 Stellaria alaskana Hultén
Distribution
Northern Alaska - Yukon: Rare
Shrub Tundra: Rare
Bordering boreal or alpine areas: Scattered
- Hultén, Bot. Not. 1943: 264 (1943). Holotype (S): Alaska: the Alaska Range district, Rapids, leg. J.P. Anderson 2222.
Geography: American Beringian: ALA.
Notes: Stellaria alaskana is reported north to the Arctic in the Brooks Range (Cook and Roland 2002; also specimens from 2002 in ALA). Morton (2005b) cited good diagnostic characters vs. S. longipes. Stellaria alaskana merits rank as species apart from the S. longipes complex.
Higher Taxa
- Stellaria [4201,genus]