Heuchera glomerulata |
Heuchera pilosissima |
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Chiricahua Mountain alum-root |
alum root, hairy alumroot, Parish's alumroot, seaside alum-root |
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Habit | Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. | Herbs caulescent; caudex branched. |
Flowering stems | 25–40 cm, long stipitate-glandular. |
3–22 cm, short to long stipitate-glandular, viscid. |
Leaves | 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 (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, (interrupted). |
dense. |
Flowers | 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 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 | ovoid, 4–5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
ovoid, 2.5–10 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
Seeds | black, fusiform, 0.5 mm. |
black, broadly fusiform, 0.6 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14, 28. |
Heuchera glomerulata |
Heuchera pilosissima |
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Phenology | Flowering May. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Shaded, rocky slopes | Pine belts on coastal bluffs on sandstone or decomposed granite |
Elevation | 1300-2000 m (4300-6600 ft) | 10-500 m (0-1600 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Heuchera glomerulata occurs in the Chiricahua and Pinaleno mountains of southeastern Arizona and in New Mexico. (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. 103. | FNA vol. 8, p. 93. |
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Synonyms | H. hemisphaerica, H. pilosissima var. hemisphaerica | |
Name authority | Rosendahl: Minnesota Stud. Pl. Sci. 2: 155. (1936) | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 5: 36. 1838 , |
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