Micranthes gormanii |
Micranthes odontoloma |
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Gorman's saxifrage |
brook saxifrage, stream saxifrage, streambank saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants in groups or, sometimes, almost mat-forming, rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or sometimes grouped, rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 5–7.5 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 3–4 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins shallowly crenate-serrate, sparsely ciliate, surfaces tangled, reddish brown-hairy. |
basal; petiole rounded, 2–30 cm; blade round, 7–40 cm, thin to slightly fleshy, base cordate to truncate, margins regularly dentate, eciliate, surfaces sparsely brownish hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
Inflorescences | (10–)30+-flowered, open, lax, strongly divaricately branched, conic thyrses, 8–30 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; (bracts glabrous, proximal marginally ciliate). |
10–30+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 20–65(–85) cm, glabrous proximally, purple-tipped subsessile-glandular distally. |
Flowers | sepals ascending, ovate to oblong, (margins eciliate, surfaces glabrous); petals white, not spotted, obovate to ± round, clawed, ca. 2 mm, ca. 1.5 times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary nearly 1/3 inferior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
sepals reflexed, ovate to elliptic; petals white, each with 2 basal yellow spots, round to broadly elliptic, clawed, 3–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments strongly club-shaped, (to 6 mm); pistils connate ca. 1/2 their lengths; ovary superior. |
Capsules | greenish to reddish purple, folliclelike. |
green to purple, ± folliclelike. |
2n | = 20, 38, 40. |
= 24, 48. |
Micranthes gormanii |
Micranthes odontoloma |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering summer–early autumn. |
Habitat | Wet, rocky ledges and slopes | Wet meadows and stream banks |
Elevation | 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft) | 1500-4000 m (4900-13100 ft) |
Distribution |
OR; WA
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 62. | FNA vol. 8, p. 56. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga gormanii, Saxifraga occidentalis var. dentata | Saxifraga odontoloma |
Name authority | (Suksdorf) Brouillet & Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. 2007 , | (Piper) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 8: 60. 1912 , |
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