Micranthes hitchcockiana |
Micranthes calycina |
Micranthes petiolaris |
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Hitchcock's saxifrage, Saddle Mountain saxifrage |
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Michaux's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, short-rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or in clusters, rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | 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 ± distinct, flattened, (0.5–)1–3.5 cm; blade rhombic or fan-shaped, sometimes nearly round, (1–)1.5–3.5 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate to ± cuneate, margins 7–11-toothed in distal 1/2–2/3 (teeth 1–3 mm), sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous. |
basal; petiole somewhat flattened, 2–6 cm; blade oblanceolate, 2–12 cm, thin, basecuneate to ± attenuate, margins usually 15+-toothed (teeth large, lobelike), densely long glandular-ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
Inflorescences | 70+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 15–35 cm, tangled, yellow-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
3–15-flowered, usually racemiform, sometimes paniculiform thyrses, 3–15 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely long-hairy, branches ± densely (rarely sparsely) long tangled-hairy; (bracts reduced). |
30+-flowered, very open, lax thyrses, (flowers rarely replaced by bulbils), 10–40 cm, densely tangled, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; (bracts leaflike, gradually reduced distally). |
Flowers | 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. |
sepals reflexed, lanceolate to ovate; petals white to cream, sometimes purplish, not spotted, linear to narrowly elliptic, not clawed, 2–4 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths, (conic); ovary ± 1/2 inferior. |
slightly bilaterally symmetric; sepals reflexed, oblong to elliptic; petals white, 3 with 2 basal yellow spots, 2 without spots, oblanceolate to spatulate, clawed, 3–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior. |
Capsules | greenish to reddish purple, folliclelike. |
purple-black, valvate. |
green to yellow, sometimes purple tinged, valvate |
2n | = 76. |
= 24. |
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Micranthes hitchcockiana |
Micranthes calycina |
Micranthes petiolaris |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–early autumn. |
Habitat | Wet rocks and ledges on mountain-top balds | Flushes, stream banks, tundra, around late snowbeds, screes | Wet ledges, boulderfields, and rocky slopes, usually in thin soil over rock |
Elevation | 600-1100 m (2000-3600 ft) | (0-)30-1700 m ((0-)100-5600 ft) | 500-2100 m (1600-6900 ft) |
Distribution |
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AK; e Asia (Russian Far East) |
GA; KY; MD; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV
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Discussion | 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.) |
Micranthes calycina is found mostly in western Alaska, in the north from the Seward Peninsula to the Brooks Range west of Atigun Pass, and in the south from Unimak Island and the Ahklum Mountains to the Saint Elias Mountains. It is also present on the main Bering Sea islands, but apparently not on the Aleutians west of Unimak. Plants of this species sometimes have been misidentified as M. davurica (Willdenow) Small, a species restricted to eastern Siberia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Micranthes petiolaris (Rafinesque) Brouillet & Gornall is an isonym. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 70. | FNA vol. 8, p. 59. | FNA vol. 8, p. 58. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga hitchcockiana | Saxifraga calycina, Saxifraga davurica subsp. grandipetala, Saxifraga davurica var. grandipetala | Hexaphoma petiolaris, Saxifraga michauxii, Saxifraga petiolaris |
Name authority | (Elvander) Brouillet & Gornall: Novon 18: 138. 2008 , | (Sternberg) Gornall & H. Ohba: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. (2007) | (Rafinesque) Bush: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 11: 225. 1928 , |
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