Flora of North America species comparison

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Elmera

coralbells, elmera, yellow coralbells
Habit Herbs, not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous; caudex slender, scaly.
Flowering stems

erect, leafy, 10–35 cm, stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

in basal rosette and cauline, cauline leaves 2–3, smaller distally;

stipules present;

petiole sparsely to densely stipitate-glandular;

blade orbiculate to broadly reniform, 5–9-lobed, sinuses relatively shallow, base cordate, ultimate margins crenate, apex obtuse, surfaces stipitate-glandular;

venation palmate.
Inflorescences

spikelike racemes, from axillary buds in rosette, 10–28-flowered, bracteate.
Flowers

hypanthium adnate to proximal 1/4 of ovary, free from ovary 2.5–4 mm, green, white, or cream;

sepals 5, greenish yellow;

petals 5, white or cream;

nectary tissue not seen;

stamens 5, (opposite sepals);

filaments subulate;

ovary 1/4 inferior, 1-locular, ovaries completely connate;

placentation parietal;

styles 2;

stigmas 2.
Capsules

2-beaked.
Seeds

dark brown, ellipsoid, minutely papillate.
x

= 7.

Elmera
Distribution
from USDA
nw North America
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: nw North America.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 105. Authors: Elizabeth Fortson Wells, Patrick E. Elvander†.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae
Subordinate taxa
E. racemosa
Name authority Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 97. 1905 ,
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