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| Armeria maritima ssp. interior (Raup) Porsild | Species Image Gallery (opens in a new window) |
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| TAXONOMY | ||||||||||
| Family: | Plumbaginaceae | |||||||||
| Genus: | Armeria | |||||||||
| Species Synonyms: | none | |||||||||
| Common Names: | interior seapink inland sea-thrift |
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| DISTRIBUTION | ||||||||||
| Canada: | northwestern Saskatchewan | |||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | northwestern Saskatchewan; Lake Athabasca | |||||||||
| Ecoregion: | Athabasca Plain | |||||||||
| HABITAT | ||||||||||
| Saskatchewan: | barren gravel ridges in sand dunes | |||||||||
| Associated Species: | field sagewort, moss campion | |||||||||
| RARITY STATUS | ||||||||||
| Provincial
Status According to Harms (2003): |
Threatened |
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| Nature Conservancy Status: | G5T1T2 N5T1T2 S1S2 |
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| Saskatchewan
Species at Risk Status: |
None |
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| COSEWIC Status: | Threatened |
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| Interior seapink is threatened in Saskatchewan because it is rare and highly regionally restricted. This subspecies is known only from the Lake Athabasca region and is almost always locally sparse. No immediate threats are known for this species. | ||||||||||
| SPECIES DESCRIPTION | ||||||||||
| Height: | 2 – 60 | |||||||||
| Roots: | erect | |||||||||
| Stems: | leafless and terminating in an inflorescence, erect, hairless or hairy | |||||||||
| Leaves: | 1 – 5 cm long, 2 – 3 mm wide, hairless, 1 – 3-veined | |||||||||
| Inflorescence: | sheathing bract 5 – 30 mm long; outer inflorescence bracts 4 – 14 mm long, more than half as long as inner ones, oval to triangular; heads 1 – 3 cm wide | |||||||||
| Flowers: | all of the same kind (all stigmas bumpy, pollen netted) or of two kinds (bumpy stigmas, finely netted pollen and smooth stigmas, coarsely netted pollen); sepals hairless, teeth triangular, awned or not; petals exceeding sepals or reduced, pink to white | |||||||||
| Fruits: | capsule opening like a lid at or below middle, 3 – 4 mm long; seeds 2, reddish-tan | |||||||||
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