Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Bensoniella

bensoniella
Habit Herbs, not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous; caudex slender, scaly.
Flowering stems

erect or ascending, leafless, 19–45 cm, stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

in basal rosette;

stipules present;

petiole long stipitate-glandular;

blade orbiculate to cordate, 5–9-lobed, sinuses relatively shallow, base cordate, ultimate margins unevenly crenate, apex rounded, surfaces long stipitate-glandular along veins abaxially, sparsely long stipitate-glandular adaxially;

venation palmate.
Inflorescences

spikelike racemes, from axillary buds of basal rosette, 15–30-flowered, ebracteate.
Flowers

slightly bilaterally symmetric, base gibbous on abaxial side;

hypanthium 1/3 adnate to ovary proximally, free from ovary 0.5–0.8 mm, yellowish white to green;

sepals 5, yellowish white to green;

petals absent or 5, purple or pink;

nectary tissue not seen or inconspicuous;

stamens 5, opposite sepals;

filaments filiform;

ovary 1/3 inferior, 1-locular;

placentation parietal;

styles 2;

stigmas 2.
Capsules

2-beaked.
Seeds

dark brown, oblong to ellipsoid, smooth.
x

= 7.

Bensoniella
Distribution
from USDA
w United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Bensonia Abrams & Bacigalupi, Contr. Dudley Herb. 1: 95, plate 5, fig. 1. 1929, not Buckman 1845 (fossil)

Species 1: w United States.

Although the floral morphology of Bensoniella is quite distinctive, vegetative similarities suggest a connection with the otherwise equally distinctive genus Mitella. Molecular data (D. E. Soltis et al. 1990), as well as karyotype analysis (Soltis 1988), clearly show a close relationship between the genera.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 83. Authors: Elizabeth Fortson Wells, Patrick E. Elvander†.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae
Subordinate taxa
B. oregona
Name authority C. V. Morton: Leafl. W. Bot. 10: 181. 1965 ,
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America, OregonFlora

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers