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American golden-saxifrage, carpet, dorine d'amérique, golden-saxifrage, water-mat

Flowering stems

repent, decumbent, or ascending, branching in distal 1/4–1/2, 4–30 cm, glabrous.

Leaves

opposite, sometimes alternate distally, membranous.

Cauline leaves

4–9;

petiole absent or 0.1–4 mm, glabrous;

blade ovate to depressed-ovate, round, or flabellate, 2.5–15 × 2–10(–20) mm, base attenuate to cordate, margins 5–7(–9)-crenate or -crenulate, glabrous, surfaces glabrous abaxially and adaxially.

Inflorescences

terminal or axillary solitary flowers or 2–10-flowered, open cymes;

bracts green, not purple-spotted, foliaceous, ovate to flabellate, 2–7 × 2–7 mm, margins subentire or 5–7-crenate or -crenulate.

Pedicels

absent or 0.1–0.8 mm.

Flowers

hypanthium green, not purple-spotted, turbinate, 0.9–1.8 × 1.4–2.6 mm, glabrous;

sepals spreading to erect, green, greenish yellow, or greenish red, not purple-spotted or purplish brown-spotted distally, broadly triangular or broadly ovate to nearly round, 1.3–1.8 × 0.9–1.6 mm, apex obtuse to rounded;

nectary disc conspicuous, green or purple, 8-lobed;

stamens 4–8, 0.5–0.9 mm;

anthers purple, red, or orange, 0.2–0.3 × 0.4–0.5 mm;

styles 0.2–0.6 mm.

Seeds

6–16, dark brown, spheroid to ovoid, (0.5–)0.6–0.8 mm, puberulent.

Stolon(s)

leaves: petiole 1–4 mm, glabrous;

blade ovate to depressed-ovate, round, or flabellate, 2.5–15 × 2–10(–20) mm, base attenuate to cordate, margins subentire or 5–7(–9)-crenate or -crenulate, not purple-spotted, glabrous, surfaces glabrous abaxially and adaxially.

2n

= 18, 24.

Chrysosplenium americanum

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat Marshy ground, streamsides, seeps, springs, swampy woods
Elevation 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CT; DE; GA; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; RI; SC; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 72.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae > Chrysosplenium
Sibling taxa
C. glechomifolium, C. iowense, C. rosendahlii, C. tetrandrum, C. wrightii
Name authority Schweinitz ex Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 242. 1832 ,
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