Micranthes hitchcockiana |
Micranthes odontoloma |
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Hitchcock's saxifrage, Saddle Mountain saxifrage |
brook saxifrage, stream saxifrage, streambank saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, short-rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or sometimes grouped, rhizomatous. |
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 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 | 70+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 15–35 cm, tangled, yellow-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
10–30+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 20–65(–85) cm, glabrous proximally, purple-tipped subsessile-glandular 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, 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 | = 76. |
= 24, 48. |
Micranthes hitchcockiana |
Micranthes odontoloma |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering summer–early autumn. |
Habitat | Wet rocks and ledges on mountain-top balds | Wet meadows and stream banks |
Elevation | 600-1100 m (2000-3600 ft) | 1500-4000 m (4900-13100 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 70. | FNA vol. 8, p. 56. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga hitchcockiana | Saxifraga odontoloma |
Name authority | (Elvander) Brouillet & Gornall: Novon 18: 138. 2008 , | (Piper) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 8: 60. 1912 , |
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