Dryas octopetala: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Dryas
- Species
- Dryas octopetala
- Scientific Name
- Dryas octopetala
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dryas octopetala
Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies. The specific epithet octopetala derives from Greek octo 'eight' and petalon 'petal', referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However, flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally.
As a floral emblem, it is the official territorial flower of the Northwest Territories and the national flower of Iceland.
...Dryas octopetala in languages:
- Bokmål
- reinrose
- Czech
- dryádka osmiplátečná
- Danish
- Rypelyng
- English
- Eight-petal Mountain-Avens
- English
- Mountain Avens
- Estonian
- harilik drüüas
- Finnish
- lapinvuokko
- Finnish
- tunturilapinvuokko
- French
- Dryade à huit pétales
- German
- Silberwurz
- German
- Weiße Silberwurz
- Italian
- Camedrio alpino
- Japanese
- チョウノスケソウ(広義)
- Polish
- Dębik ośmiopłatkowy
- Portuguese
- Drias
- Russian
- Дриада восьмилепестная
- Russian
- Куропаточья трава
- Slovene
- alpska velesa
- Swedish
- fjällsippa
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