Heuchera glomerulata
Heuchera glabra
Chiricahua Mountain alum-root
alpine alum-root, alpine heuchera, smooth alumroot
25–40 cm, long stipitate-glandular.
15–60 cm, glabrous or short stipitate-glandular.
petiole short stipitate-glandular;
blade (purple abaxially, variegated adaxially), ovate to orbiculate, shallowly 5-lobed, 2.5–9 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces short stipitate-glandular, long stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular adaxially.
petiole glabrous or short stipitate-glandular;
blade rounded-cordate to orbiculate, often ± polygonal, deeply 5(–7+)-lobed, 3.5–10 cm, base usually cordate, sometimes nearly truncate, lobes usually triangular, sometimes ovate, margins raggedly dentate to serrate, apex usually acute, surfaces sparsely short stipitate-glandular, glabrate.
dense, (interrupted).
diffuse.
hypanthium radially symmetric, free 0.8–1.2 mm, yellowish green, campanulate, 3.5–5 mm, densely long stipitate-glandular mixed with short stipitate-glandular;
sepals erect or incurved at tip, green-tipped, equal, 1.5–2 mm, apex acute;
petals erect, white, narrowly oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 1.5–1.8 mm, margins entire;
stamens included 0.5 mm; (filaments strongly incurved, slender, shorter than and almost concealed by anthers);
styles included 1 mm, to 0.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam.
hypanthium radially symmetric, free 0.4–0.5 mm, white, obconic, 2–3.5 mm, moderately long stipitate-glandular;
sepals erect, green-tipped, equal, 0.5 mm, apex rounded;
petals reflexed, white, narrowly elliptic, (clawed), unlobed, 1.8–2 mm, margins entire;
stamens exserted 1–1.5 mm;
styles exserted 2–2.5 mm, 2–4 mm, to 0.1 mm diam.
ovoid, 4–5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.
ovoid, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.
black, fusiform, 0.5 mm.
dark brown, narrowly ellipsoid, 0.7–0.8 mm, finely spiny.
= 14.
= 14.
Heuchera glomerulata
Heuchera glabra
Heuchera glomerulata occurs in the Chiricahua and Pinaleno mountains of southeastern Arizona and in New Mexico.
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Heuchera glabra occurs from near sea level in the Aleutian Islands and the Panhandle in Alaska to above the tree line on Mount Hood, Oregon, in the Cascades, Olympic Mountains, and Wenatchee Mountains in Washington, and in the Coast Mountains to the Selkirks Range in British Columbia. It intergrades with H. micrantha where their ranges overlap in British Columbia, and where the two species probably hybridize. It tends to occur at higher elevations than does H. micrantha. The Tlingit used this species to treat inflammation of the testicles from syphilis (D. E. Moerman 1998).
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