Heuchera elegans
Heuchera novamexicana
urn-flower alum-root
range alum-root
10–40 cm, sparsely medium stipitate-glandular.
30–50 cm, short or long stipitate-glandular.
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 glabrous or long stipitate-glandular;
blade reniform or rounded-cordate, shallowly 5-lobed, 2–6 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces long stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, glabrous or short stipitate-glandular adaxially.
dense.
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 radially symmetric, free 1–1.8 mm, cream or yellowish green, broadly campanulate, 3–5 mm, short stipitate-glandular;
sepals erect or incurved, green-tipped, equal, 0.6–1.2 mm, apex ovate;
petals usually erect, white, elliptic, (not clawed), unlobed, 0.5–1 mm, margins entire;
stamens included 0.5 mm; (filaments erect or incurved distally, equaling and not concealed by anthers);
styles included 0.5–1 mm, 0.5–1 mm, 0.1+ mm diam.
urceolate, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.
ovoid, 5.5–6.5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.
dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.7 mm.
dark brown, asymmetrically ellipsoid or convex-fusiform, 0.5 mm.
dense.
= 14.
Heuchera elegans
Heuchera novamexicana
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 novamexicana occurs in the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico. Populations with glabrous petioles may be found in the Organ Mountains of New Mexico; elsewhere, long stipitate-glandular petioles are more common in the species.
The Navajo Indians took a decoction of roots of Heuchera novamexicana for internal pain. They applied a poultice of split roots to infected sores, swellings, and fractures, and used the plant as a panacea or “life medicine” (D. E. Moerman 1998).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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