Micranthes californica |
Micranthes nudicaulis |
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California saxifrage, Greene's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices, or rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or in clusters, stoloniferous, rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 2–5 cm; blade ovate, 2–7 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins serrate, rarely subentire, ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
basal; petiole rounded, 0.5–3.5 cm, (base expanded, stipulelike); blade somewhat reniform, (± evenly lobed), 0.5–2.5 cm, ± fleshy, base cordate to truncate, margins entire, sparsely glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 20+-flowered, (flowers often secund), open, lax thyrses with distant lateral branches, 15–30(–40) cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
5–20-flowered, branched cymes or flat-topped thyrses, 5–16 cm, sparsely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
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. |
sepals reflexed or, sometimes, spreading, triangular; petals white to cream (rarely pink), not spotted, broadly elliptic to ovate, short-clawed, 4–5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
Capsules | purplish, folliclelike. |
dark purple-black, valvate. |
2n | = 40. |
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Micranthes californica |
Micranthes nudicaulis |
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Phenology | Flowering winter–early spring. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Shaded fields, rocky or unstable slopes, stream banks | Wet flushes, stream banks |
Elevation | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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AK; e Asia (Russian Far East) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 64. | FNA vol. 8, p. 59. |
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 nudicaulis |
Name authority | (Greene) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 140. (1905) | (D. Don) Gornall & H. Ohba: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1021. (2007) |
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