Micranthes hitchcockiana
Micranthes bryophora
Saddle Mountain saxifrage
bud saxifrage
basal;
petiole often indistinct, flattened, 5–50 mm;
blade elliptic to obovate, 4–12 cm, slightly fleshy, base cuneate, margins serrate to dentate, densely ciliate, surfaces densely tangled-hairy.
± basal;
petiole absent;
blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 0.5–4 cm, fleshy, base cuneate, margins subentire, ciliate, surfaces hirsute.
70+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 15–35 cm, tangled, yellow-tipped stipitate-glandular.
usually 2–3+-flowered, open, lax thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, (flowers terminal, proximal usually replaced by bulbils, sometimes bulbils absent), 2–25 cm, stipitate-glandular. (Pedicels reflexed.) Flowers: sepals reflexed, elliptic;
petals white, each with 2 basal yellow spots, triangular to broadly ovate, clawed, 3–5 mm, longer than sepals;
filaments linear, flattened;
pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths;
ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium).
sepals reflexed, elliptic to ovate;
petals white, not spotted, elliptic, clawed, 2–5 mm, longer than sepals;
filaments linear, flattened;
pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths;
ovary 1/2 inferior, appearing more superior in fruit.
greenish to reddish purple, folliclelike.
green to yellow, purple tinged, valvate.
= 76.
Micranthes hitchcockiana
Micranthes bryophora
Of conservation concern.
Micranthes hitchcockiana may have originated from hybridization between M. rufidula and M. oregana (P. E. Elvander 1984; W. E. Perkins 1978).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Specimens of Micranthes bryophora from the disjunct populations in Idaho have been called Saxifraga bryophora var. tobiasiae; they appear to overlap in morphology with the California plants and are not distinguished here.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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