Blasia pusilla
From Natural History of Southeast Alaska
Blasia pusilla: Apparently fairly common along the upper edge of the mud flats Blue Lake, and on sand bars adjacent to the main inflow stream to Blue Lake.
Family: Blasiaceae
Status: Documented
Abundance: Uncommon
Preferred Habitats: Riparian, Lacustrine
Micro Habitats: Sandbar
Observed at: Blue Lake, Blue Lake Creek
Southeastern Alaska Distribution: Throughout, especially at lower elevations wherever there has been construction by man.
Habitat: Usually on moist sands and clay, in roadside ditches, marshes, gullies in glacial till, alluvial deposits, and similar, disturbed habitats.
Comments: Commonly with gemmae, never with sporophytes. Presumably this species would have had no difficulty in following the fluctuations of the ice margin during the Pleistocene as there would always be available suitable habitats in the disturbed terrain.
