Boykinia rotundifolia |
Boykinia major |
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round leaf boykinia, roundleaf brookfoam, roundleafed brookfoam |
large boykinia, mountain boykinia, Sierra brookfoam |
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Habit | Plants: rhizomes proliferating underground. | Plants: rhizomes proliferating underground. |
Flowering stems | (30–)50–80(–130) cm. |
(20–)50–130 cm. |
Basal leaves | petiole 5–22 cm; blade usually orbiculate-cordate, sometimes reniform, shallowly and indistinctly lobed, (3.5–)7–16 × (4–)9–18 cm, margins 2–3-times serrate. |
petiole 5–25(–40) cm; blade usually reniform, sometimes cordate, 3–7-lobed to 1/2–3/4 its length, 5–15(–22) × 7–18(–26) cm, margins 2–3-times dentate. |
Cauline leaves | stipules 1–2 mm expansions of petiole base, fringed with brown hairs. |
stipules (2–)6–20(–35) mm, foliaceous, smaller ones fringed with brown hairs. |
Inflorescences | ± pyramidal, (10–)15–25-flowered per primary branch. |
corymbiform, 8–15(–21)-flowered per primary branch. |
Pedicels | densely stipitate-glandular. |
densely stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | hypanthium campanulate, free portion 1–2 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, triangular to lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm, apex acute; petals narrowly spatulate, 2–3 × 1 mm, shorter than or to 1.5 times as long as sepals, base tapered to claw, margins plane; nectary green; stamens 1.2–1.6 mm; ovary 2/3 inferior. |
hypanthium saucer-shaped, free portion 1–2 mm, densely stipitate-glandular; sepals spreading, triangular, 2–4 mm, apex acute; petals suborbiculate to ovate, 4–7 × 2–5 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals, base contracted to claw 0.5–3 mm, margins undulate; nectary yellow; stamens (1.6–)2–3 mm; ovary inferior. |
Capsules | ovoid, turbinate, or urceolate. |
ovoid, turbinate, or urceolate. |
Seeds | usually black, tuberculate. |
usually black, tuberculate. |
2n | = 14. |
= 28. |
Boykinia rotundifolia |
Boykinia major |
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Phenology | Flowering early-mid summer. | Flowering summer(-early autumn). |
Habitat | Damp woodlands, margins of lakes, ponds, and watercourses, often on disturbed soil, trailsides, mudslides | Wet woodlands, margins of lakes, ponds, and watercourses |
Elevation | 800-2000 m (2600-6600 ft) | 200-2200 m (700-7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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CA; ID; MT; OR
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Discussion | The record of Boykinia rotundifolia from “Lower California” (Williamson, 20 July 1901, PH) is the only collection seen from Mexico. The species is occasionally grown in gardens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Records of Boykinia major from Alaska (G. W. Cooley 1892) relate to specimens of Heuchera glabra. Some populations from Idaho are polymorphic for dentate versus entire petals, and some plants from northern California have purple blotches proximally on the petals. Specimens intermediate in gross morphology between B. major and B. occidentalis, and which match synthetic hybrids, have been collected from Lane County, Oregon (R. J. Gornall and B. A. Bohm 1985). Boykinia major is occasionally grown in gardens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 128. | FNA vol. 8, p. 127. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Boykinia | Saxifragaceae > Boykinia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Therofon rotundifolium | Therofon major |
Name authority | Parry ex A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 13: 371. (1878) | A. Gray: in W. H. Brewer et al., Bot. California 1: 196. (1876) |
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