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Heuchera parishii

Mill Creek alum-root, Parish's alumroot
Habit Herbs subcaulescent; caudex branched.
Flowering stems

8–40 cm, long stipitate-glandular, viscid.
Leaves

petiole densely long stipitate-glandular;

blade broadly ovate or reniform, deeply 5-lobed, 2–4 cm, base cordate or truncate, lobes rounded, margins dentate, apex obtuse, surfaces long stipitate-glandular, viscid.
Inflorescences

dense, (secund).
Flowers

hypanthium strongly bilaterally symmetric, free 0.8 mm on abaxial side, 1.2–2 mm on adaxial side, weakly inflated, pink to reddish, narrowly campanulate, 3.5–6 mm, short stipitate-glandular proximally, long stipitate-glandular distally;

sepals erect, green-tipped, unequal, 0.5–1 mm on abaxial side, 1.5–2 mm on adaxial side, apex rounded;

petals spreading, pink, narrowly oblanceolate, unlobed, (unequal, shorter on abaxial side, resembling filaments), 2–3 mm (equaling or longer than sepals), margins entire;

stamens exserted 1.5 mm;

styles exserted 0.5–1.5 mm, 1.5–2.5 mm, 0.1+ mm diam.
Capsules

ovoid, 4–6 mm, beaks divergent, not papillose.
Seeds

black, fusiform, rounded at 1 end, acute at other, ca. 0.9 mm.

Heuchera parishii
Phenology Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Shaded rocky places in yellow pine and red fir forest
Elevation 1500-3800 m (4900-12500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Heuchera parishii occurs in the San Bernardino Mountains.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 98.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae > Heuchera
Sibling taxa
H. abramsii, H. alba, H. americana, H. bracteata, H. brevistaminea, H. caespitosa, H. caroliniana, H. chlorantha, H. cylindrica, H. eastwoodiae, H. elegans, H. glabra, H. glomerulata, H. grossulariifolia, H. hallii, H. hirsutissima, H. longiflora, H. maxima, H. merriamii, H. micrantha, H. novamexicana, H. parviflora, H. parvifolia, H. pilosissima, H. pubescens, H. pulchella, H. richardsonii, H. rubescens, H. sanguinea, H. villosa, H. wootonii
Synonyms H. alpestris
Name authority Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 109. (1905)
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