Micranthes californica |
Micranthes foliolosa |
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California saxifrage, Greene's saxifrage |
leafy stem saxifrage, naked-bulbil small-flower-saxifrage, saxifrage à bulbilles |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices, or rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 2–5 cm; blade ovate, 2–7 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins serrate, rarely subentire, ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
basal; petiole ± absent; blade oblanceolate, 6–15(–30) cm, ± fleshy, base cuneate, margins subentire, sometimes 1–3-toothed distally, eciliate or sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrate. |
Inflorescences | 20+-flowered, (flowers often secund), open, lax thyrses with distant lateral branches, 15–30(–40) cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
2(–5+)-flowered, (proximal flowers replaced by bulbils), narrow, branched, sometimes ± open, cylindric thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, 5–15 cm, glabrous or sparsely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. (Pedicels erect to ascending.) Flowers: sepals reflexed, lanceolate; petals white, each with 1–2 basal yellow spots, lanceolate, clawed, 3–8 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
Flowers | sepals reflexed, sometimes spreading, triangular to ovate; petals white, not spotted, elliptic to oblong, clawed, 2.5–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior, appearing superior in fruit. |
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Capsules | purplish, folliclelike. |
green to purplish, valvate. |
2n | = 56. |
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Micranthes californica |
Micranthes foliolosa |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. | Flowering late summer. |
Habitat | Shaded fields, rocky or unstable slopes, stream banks | Mossy tundra near streams and flushes, wet, rocky slopes, snowbeds |
Elevation | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) | 0-1800 m (0-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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AK; CO; ME; NL; NT; NU; QC; YT; Greenland; n Europe; n Asia |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 64. | FNA vol. 8, p. 57. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga californica, M. parvifolia, Saxifraga fallax, Saxifraga hallii, Saxifraga parvifolia, Saxifraga virginiensis var. californica | Saxifraga foliolosa, Saxifraga foliolosa var. multiflora, Saxifraga stellaris subsp. comosa, Saxifraga stellaris var. comosa |
Name authority | (Greene) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 140. (1905) | (R. Brown) Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. 2007 , |
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