Heuchera micrantha var. erubescens |
Heuchera micrantha |
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crevice alumroot |
alum root, crevice alum-root, small-flower alumroot |
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Habit | Herbs caulescent; caudex branched. | |||||||||||||||||
Flowering stems | 6–57 cm, short to long stipitate-glandular or glabrous, viscid. |
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Leaves | petiole short stipitate-glandular or sparsely long stipitate-glandular; blade pentagonal or heptagonal, deeply lobed. |
petiole glabrous or sparsely to densely short to long stipitate-glandular; blade orbiculate to polygonal, shallowly to deeply 5–7(–9)-lobed, 2.5–10 cm, base cordate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex rounded or obtuse, surfaces glabrous or short to long stipitate-glandular, viscid. |
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Inflorescences | short stipitate-glandular. |
diffuse. |
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Flowers | hypanthium obconic, 1.7–3.1 × 1–2.3 mm (1.4 times longer than wide), short stipitate-glandular; sepals 0.5–1.8 mm, apex acute; petals 0.2–0.6 mm wide; styles 0.2–0.6 mm. |
hypanthium radially symmetric, free to 1.5 mm, greenish white, often tinged with red, obconic to hemispheric, broadly turbinate, or campanulate, 1–4.9 mm, long stipitate-glandular, sometimes short stipitate-glandular proximally; sepals spreading to nearly erect, green- or red-tipped, equal, 0.5–1.8 mm, apex rounded to acute or mucronate; petals often coiled, white or pale pink, oblanceolate, (narrowly clawed), unlobed, 1.6–3.3 mm (2–3 times as long as sepals), margins entire; stamens exserted to 3 mm; styles exserted to 2.5 mm, 0.2–4.2 mm, to 0.1 mm diam. |
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Capsules | ovoid, 3–8.5 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose. |
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Seeds | black, broadly ellipsoid, (not curved), 0.5–0.8 mm. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Heuchera micrantha var. erubescens |
Heuchera micrantha |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Mixed evergreen forest on limestone, mica schist, granite, or serpentine soils | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 100-2200 m (300-7200 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA |
CA; ID; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Variety erubescens occurs in the Klamath Mountains, middle Sierra Nevada, and Diablo and Santa Lucia mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). The Skagit Indians rubbed pounded plants of Heuchera micrantha on hair to make it grow and applied it to cuts. The Thompson Indians used a mashed poultice of this root mixed with Douglas fir pitch for wounds. Chewed leaves and roots were spat on sores or wounds. Infusions of roots were taken for liver trouble and sore throat. Small, peeled, cleaned root pieces were chewed for mouth sores and gum boils (D. E. Moerman 1998). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 92. | FNA vol. 8, p. 91. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | H. erubescens | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (A. Braun & C. D. Bouché) Rosendahl: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37(2, Beibl. 83): 77. (1905) | Douglas ex Lindley: Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 15: plate 1302. 1830 , | ||||||||||||||||
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