Heuchera grossulariifolia |
Heuchera pulchella |
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gooseberry-leaf alumroot |
sandia mountain alumroot |
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Habit | Herbs acaulescent; caudex branched. | Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched. |
Flowering stems | 15–65 cm, glabrous or short stipitate-glandular. |
7–15 cm, short stipitate-glandular. |
Leaves | petiole glabrous or short stipitate-glandular; blade cordate or orbiculate, shallowly 3–5-lobed, 1–7 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short stipitate-glandular. |
petiole short or long stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate, deeply 5-lobed, 0.5–2 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces short stipitate-glandular and sparsely long stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, short stipitate-glandular adaxially. |
Inflorescences | dense, interrupted. |
dense, (secund). |
Flowers | hypanthium weakly bilaterally symmetric, free 1.2–1.9 mm, cream, broadly campanulate, 4–7 mm, short stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, often red-tipped, equal, 2 mm, apex rounded; petals erect, pink or white, spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 1–3 mm, margins entire; stamens included 1.5 mm; (filaments strongly incurved, shorter than and almost concealed by anthers); styles included to 1 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. |
hypanthium moderately bilaterally symmetric, free 1–1.5 mm, reddish or dark rose, campanulate, 4–5.5 mm, short stipitate-glandular proximally, long stipitate-glandular distally; sepals somewhat spreading, darker red on tips, equal, 0.8–1.8 mm, apex obtuse or rounded; petals spreading, pink, lanceolate, (clawed), unlobed, 2–2.5 mm (longer than sepals), margins entire; stamens exserted 1 mm; styles exserted 1–1.8 mm, 1.5–2 mm, 0.1+ mm diam. |
Capsules | ovoid, 5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
ovoid, 5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
Seeds | dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.6 mm. |
dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.8 mm. |
2n | = 14, 28. |
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Heuchera grossulariifolia |
Heuchera pulchella |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering Aug–Sep. |
Habitat | Grassy hillsides, rocky canyon walls, alpine talus slopes | Canyons and mountain slopes |
Elevation | 100-3400 m (300-11200 ft) | 2700-3200 m (8900-10500 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Heuchera grossulariifolia includes both diploids and autotetraploids. K. A. Segraves and J. N. Thompson (1999) analyzed floral traits and flowering phenology in diploid and autotetraploid plants. Overall, plant size was greater in tetraploids than in diploids; flowers of tetraploids were larger (average hypanthium 6.5 mm) than those of diploids (average hypanthium 5.5 mm) and had a slightly different shape and phenology, but the diploids and tetraploids were not assigned taxonomic status in their study. Diploids and tetraploids were mixed in some populations, where characters intergraded (D. E. Soltis, pers. comm.). The autotetraploids have had two to seven independent origins from diploid progenitors, and do not represent a monophyletic lineage (Segraves and Thompson; Segraves et al. 1999). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Heuchera pulchella occurs in northern and central New Mexico. It resembles H. abramsii, H. brevistaminea, H. caespitosa, and H. elegans; it is isolated geographically from the other species of this complex, all of southern California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 103. | FNA vol. 8, p. 100. |
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Synonyms | H. cusickii, H. grossulariifolia var. tenuifolia, H. tenuifolia | |
Name authority | Rydberg: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 1: 196. (1900) | Wooton & Standley: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 130. (1913) |
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