Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sieversia glacialis (Adams) Spreng. Syst. 2: 543. 1825
Geum glaciate Adams; Fisch. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 2: 187. 1809. Adamsia glacialis Fisch.; Steud. Nom. Bot. Phan. 366, as synonym. 1821.
Perennial, with a rootstock; stem mostly 1-flowered, 1-2 cm. high, hirsute with reflexed hairs; basal leaves pinnate, above sparingly, below densely pilose with long soft yellowish hairs; leaflets 11-17, less than 1.5 cm. long, oblong, usually 2-toothed (rarely 3or 4-toothed or entire) at the apex; stem-leaves few and small, sessile, 3-fid, with the median lobe elongate; bractlets lanceolate, about 5 mm. long; sepals green, ovate, 7-8 mm. long, suberect, densely pilose; petals light-yellow, suborbicular, longer than the sepals; plumose portion of the style in fruit 1.5-2 cm. long; glabrous upper portion about 3 mm. long.
Type locality: On the Lena.
Distribution: Alaska and the Arctic coast east to Mackenzie River; also eastern Siberia as far as to the mouth of the Lena.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1913. ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(5). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
