The Ranunculi of the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain and the Brooks Range
Benson L. 1955. The Ranunculi of the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain and the Brooks Range. The American Midland Naturalist. 53(1):242-255
Until the last five years little has been known of the flora of the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain, and the writer has seen only one Ranunculus specimen collected in the Brooks Range prior to 1946. Few of the early collections were made by professional botanists. Nearly all the few specimens are those of members of exploring expeditions not concerned primarily with this field of study, and they record only the existence of species at the few points at which ships stop-nothing of local variability within species. Before 1946 only about twenty collections of Ranunculus were known from an area the size of California or of New England, New York, and Pennsylvania. These specimens represent only four species, and they give no indication of geographical distribution because nearly all came from "Point Barrow," Wainwright, or Cape Lisburne.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Benson, Lyman
- Units
- BELA , CAKR , GAAR , KOVA , NOAT
- Keywords
- Arctic, Classification, Distribution, Identification, Plant Communities (Vegetation), Ranunculus, Vegetation