Heuchera elegans |
Heuchera chlorantha |
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urn-flower alum-root |
green-flower alum-root, meadow, meadow alumroot, narrow-flower, tall, tall alumroot |
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Habit | Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched. | Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. |
Flowering stems | 10–40 cm, sparsely medium stipitate-glandular. |
40–110 cm, long stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | petiole long stipitate-glandular; blade reniform or orbiculate, shallowly 5-lobed, 1.5–3.5 cm, base cordate or truncate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces short or long stipitate-glandular. |
petiole long stipitate-glandular; blade broadly ovate to nearly orbiculate, shallowly 5–7-lobed, 3–8 cm, base deeply cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces long stipitate-glandular. |
Inflorescences | dense. |
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Flowers | hypanthium strongly bilaterally symmetric, free 3–3.5 mm on adaxial side, pink to purplish, narrowly cylindric or cylindric-urceolate, 4–7 mm, short stipitate-glandular proximally, densely long stipitate-glandular distally; sepals spreading, green-tipped, unequal, 2 mm on adaxial side of hypanthium, apex obtuse or rounded; petals spreading, white, broadly oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 3–4 mm (longer than sepals), margins entire; stamens included 0.5 mm to exserted 0.5 mm; styles included to 2 mm, 1.5–2 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. |
hypanthium slightly bilaterally symmetric, free to 1 mm, green, broadly campanulate, inflated distal to adnation to ovary, 6–11 mm, short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular, densely papillate inside; sepals erect, darker green-tipped, equal, 4–6 mm, apex obtuse or rounded; petals absent or 1–5, erect, green, narrowly lanceolate, unlobed, 1.2–1.4 mm, margins entire; stamens included 2–3 mm; (filaments erect, straight, stout, ca. 3 times length of anthers); styles included 2–2.5 mm, 0.5–1 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. |
Capsules | urceolate, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
ovoid, 10–12 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
Seeds | dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.7 mm. |
dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.6–0.9 mm, finely spiny. |
Inflorescenses | dense. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Heuchera elegans |
Heuchera chlorantha |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jun. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Rocky sites in yellow pine and red fir forests | Grassy, rocky bluffs along shore lines, margins of forest openings, rocky stream banks |
Elevation | 1500-2600 m (4900-8500 ft) | 100-1200 m (300-3900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Heuchera elegans occurs in the mountains of southern California, chiefly in the San Gabriel Range in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties and vicinity. It resembles H. caespitosa. This group is in need of phylogenetic study. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Heuchera chlorantha occurs in the Pacific Northwest north to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. Inland, it occurs from the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains westward in Oregon and Washington. A putative hybrid between H. chlorantha and H. micrantha var. diversifolia, named H. ×easthamii Calder & Savile, has been reported in the Hazelton region of British Columbia. The leaf form and capsule size are intermediate between those of the two parents, both of which occur in the region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 100. | FNA vol. 8, p. 101. |
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Name authority | Abrams: Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 67. 1902 , | Piper: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 206. 1913 , |
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