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urn-flower alum-root

alum root, hairy alumroot, Parish's alumroot, seaside alum-root

Habit Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched. Herbs caulescent; caudex branched.
Flowering stems

10–40 cm, sparsely medium stipitate-glandular.

3–22 cm, short to long stipitate-glandular, viscid.

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 (7–22 cm), densely long stipitate-glandular;

blade suborbiculate or pentagonal or septagonal, deeply 5–7-lobed, 8–9 cm, base deeply cordate, lobes rounded, margins crenate, apex obtuse, surfaces moderately to densely long stipitate-glandular, viscid.

Inflorescences

dense.

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 radially symmetric, free to 1.6 mm, pink, hemispheric, 2–3 mm, densely long stipitate-glandular;

sepals erect, green- or red-tipped, equal, 0.8–2.2 mm, apex obtuse;

petals spreading, white or pink, oblong-elliptic, unlobed, 1.5–3.5 mm, margins entire;

stamens exserted 0.4–2.3 mm;

styles exserted 1–1.4 mm, 1.5–2 mm, 0.1+ mm diam.

Capsules

urceolate, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.

ovoid, 2.5–10 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.

Seeds

dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.7 mm.

black, broadly fusiform, 0.6 mm.

Inflorescenses

dense.

2n

= 14, 28.

Heuchera elegans

Heuchera pilosissima

Phenology Flowering May–Jun. Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Rocky sites in yellow pine and red fir forests Pine belts on coastal bluffs on sandstone or decomposed granite
Elevation 1500-2600 m (4900-8500 ft) 10-500 m (0-1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
from FNA
CA; OR
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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 pilosissima occurs in the marine zone and in the Coast Ranges.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 8, p. 100. FNA vol. 8, p. 93.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae > Heuchera Saxifragaceae > Heuchera
Sibling taxa
H. abramsii, H. alba, H. americana, H. bracteata, H. brevistaminea, H. caespitosa, H. caroliniana, H. chlorantha, H. cylindrica, H. eastwoodiae, H. glabra, H. glomerulata, H. grossulariifolia, H. hallii, H. hirsutissima, H. longiflora, H. maxima, H. merriamii, H. micrantha, H. novamexicana, H. parishii, H. parviflora, H. parvifolia, H. pilosissima, H. pubescens, H. pulchella, H. richardsonii, H. rubescens, H. sanguinea, H. villosa, H. wootonii
H. abramsii, H. alba, H. americana, H. bracteata, H. brevistaminea, H. caespitosa, H. caroliniana, H. chlorantha, H. cylindrica, H. eastwoodiae, H. elegans, H. glabra, H. glomerulata, H. grossulariifolia, H. hallii, H. hirsutissima, H. longiflora, H. maxima, H. merriamii, H. micrantha, H. novamexicana, H. parishii, H. parviflora, H. parvifolia, H. pubescens, H. pulchella, H. richardsonii, H. rubescens, H. sanguinea, H. villosa, H. wootonii
Synonyms H. hemisphaerica, H. pilosissima var. hemisphaerica
Name authority Abrams: Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 67. 1902 , Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 5: 36. 1838 ,
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