Micranthes apetala |
Micranthes nidifica |
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tiny swamp saxifrage, western swamp saxifrage |
Columbia saxifrage, meadow saxifrage, peak saxifrage, swamp saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clusters, with bulbils on caudices, or short-rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 0.5–3 cm; blade ± ovate, 2–5 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or crenulate, eciliate, surfaces hairy. |
basal; petiole flattened, 1.5–5.5 cm; blade ± ovate to elliptic, 3–6(–7.5) cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or minutely denticulate, ciliate, surfaces glabrate to sparsely hairy. |
Inflorescences | 10–25-flowered, congested, glomerate thyrses, 4–15 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular (hairs uniseriate). |
30+-flowered, lax, cylindric thyrses with 3–10, ± compact cymules, 10–30 cm, ± densely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | sepals erect to ascending, ovate; petals absent, sometimes 1–5, white to greenish white, not spotted, linear to oblong, clawed, 1–2 mm, much shorter than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior. |
sepals strongly reflexed, broadly ovate to deltate; petals white to greenish white, not spotted, usually elliptic to obovate, clawed, 1–1.9 mm, equaling or shorter than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior. |
Capsules | reddish or purplish, folliclelike. |
green or reddish purple, folliclelike. |
2n | = 38. |
= 38. |
Micranthes apetala |
Micranthes nidifica |
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Phenology | Flowering early spring–summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Vernally moist meadows, wet depressions on mountain slopes | Open meadows, shrub-lands, gravelly slopes, edges of and open pine forests |
Elevation | 600-2800 m (2000-9200 ft) | 100-2600 m (300-8500 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; OR; WA
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CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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Discussion | Micranthes nidifica is polymorphic and merges to some extent with M. fragosa in limited areas of southern Washington and northern Oregon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 68. | FNA vol. 8, p. 68. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga apetala, Saxifraga integrifolia var. apetala | Saxifraga nidifica, M. plantaginea, Saxifraga columbiana, Saxifraga integrifolia var. columbiana, Saxifraga integrifolia var. leptopetala, Saxifraga montana, Saxifraga plantaginea |
Name authority | (Piper) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 135. 1905 , | (Greene) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 134. (1905) |
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