Micranthes eriophora |
Micranthes foliolosa |
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redfuzz saxifrage |
leafy stem saxifrage, naked-bulbil small-flower-saxifrage, saxifrage à bulbilles |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in groups, with bulbils on caudices. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 0.5–2.5 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 1–2 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate, margins sharply serrate, sparsely to densely ciliate (some glandular-tipped), surfaces densely tangled, reddish brown-hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
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 | 10+-flowered, (flowers often secund), very open, lax, often flat-topped thyrses with distant lateral branches, 6–25 cm, pink- to purplish-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 erect, triangular; petals white, sometimes purplish-tipped, not spotted, obovate to elliptic, not clawed or barely clawed, 4–7 mm, ca. 2 times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary 1/3–1/2 inferior. |
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Capsules | purplish, valvate. |
green to purplish, valvate. |
2n | = 56. |
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Micranthes eriophora |
Micranthes foliolosa |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–early summer. | Flowering late summer. |
Habitat | Rocky slopes and ledges | Mossy tundra near streams and flushes, wet, rocky slopes, snowbeds |
Elevation | 1900-3000 m (6200-9800 ft) | 0-1800 m (0-5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua)
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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 |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Saxifraga eriophora | Saxifraga foliolosa, Saxifraga foliolosa var. multiflora, Saxifraga stellaris subsp. comosa, Saxifraga stellaris var. comosa |
Name authority | (S. Watson) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 142. (1905) | (R. Brown) Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. 2007 , |
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