Heuchera glomerulata |
Heuchera wootonii |
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Chiricahua Mountain alum-root |
White Mountain alum-root |
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Habit | Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. | Herbs, acaulescent; caudex branched or unbranched. |
Flowering stems | 25–40 cm, long stipitate-glandular. |
4–60 cm, long stipitate-glandular. |
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 long stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate, shallowly 5–7-lobed, 4–7 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded to ovate, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces glaucous, long stipitate-glandular along veins abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
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 symmetic, free 0.5 mm, green, flat, saucer-shaped, 2–3 mm, short stipitate-glandular; sepals reflexed, green-tipped, (triangular), equal, 0.5 mm, apex acute; petals reflexed, white, widely elliptic, (clawed), unlobed, 1 mm, margins entire; stamens included 0.5–0.8 mm, (incurved over stigmas); styles included 1–1.5 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. |
Capsules | ovoid, 4–5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
oblong, ca. 6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
Seeds | black, fusiform, 0.5 mm. |
dark brown, fusiform, 0.7 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
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Heuchera glomerulata |
Heuchera wootonii |
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Phenology | Flowering May. | Flowering Jun–Sep. |
Habitat | Shaded, rocky slopes | Rocky slopes |
Elevation | 1300-2000 m (4300-6600 ft) | 2100-3700 m (6900-12100 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM |
NM |
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 wootonii occurs in the Sacramento and White mountains of south-central New Mexico. It resembles H. parvifolia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 103. | FNA vol. 8, p. 104. |
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Name authority | Rosendahl: Minnesota Stud. Pl. Sci. 2: 155. (1936) | Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 113. 1905 , |
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