Micranthes nelsoniana |
Micranthes nelsoniana var. porsildiana |
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dotted saxifrage, heartleaf saxifrage, Nelson's saxifrage, saxifrage |
dotted saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on branched caudices, rhizomatous. | |||||||||||||||||
Leaves | basal; petiole rounded, 3–30 cm; blade reniform to round, 2–9 cm, thin or slightly fleshy, sometimes thick and fleshy, base cordate, margins deeply crenate, eciliate or sparsely short glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous or ± hairy. |
blades thin, not fleshy, margins 12–18-toothed. |
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Inflorescences | 10+-flowered, ± open, lax to congested, conic, sometimes also glomerate thyrses, 10–35 cm, tangled-hairy (pilose-arachnoid) at least distally, sometimes also purple- or brown-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
congested, tangled-ascending hairy. |
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Flowers | sepals reflexed, ± ovate; petals white to pinkish, rarely orange-spotted, ovate to oblong, narrowly to broadly clawed, 2.5–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments distinctly club-shaped; pistils connate 1/2–3/4 their lengths; ovary superior (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
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Pistils | connate to 3/4 their lengths. |
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Capsules | green to yellow and purplish tinged to dark purple, valvate. |
3–8 mm. |
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2n | = 28. |
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Micranthes nelsoniana |
Micranthes nelsoniana var. porsildiana |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Stream banks, wet areas | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0-2500 m (0-8200 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AK; OR; WA; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT; Europe (ne Russia); Asia
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AK; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT |
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Discussion | Varieties 6 (5 in the flora). Although sometimes reported for North America, Saxifraga nelsoniana var. aestivalis (Fischer & C. A. Meyer) H. Ohba (S. aestivalis Fischer & C. A. Meyer) is found only in Eurasia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
The characters used by J. A. Calder and D. B. O. Savile (1960) to separate var. porsildiana from var. pacifica overlap more significantly than do the characters that separate their subspecies, although inland populations of what has been called var. porsildiana gradually tend away from the morphology typical of coastal populations. Elven and Murray treated this taxon as a species distinct from Micranthes nelsoniana, because it apparently grows in stands mixed with other subspecies of M. nelsoniana without forming intermediates. The entire complex needs a thorough re-examination. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 54. | FNA vol. 8, p. 56. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes > Micranthes nelsoniana | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Saxifraga nelsoniana, Saxifraga punctata subsp. nelsoniana, Saxifraga punctata var. nelsoniana | Saxifraga punctata subsp. porsildiana, M. porsildiana, Saxifraga nelsoniana subsp. pacifica, Saxifraga nelsoniana var. pacifica, Saxifraga nelsoniana subsp. porsildiana, Saxifraga nelsoniana var. porsildiana, Saxifraga punctata subsp. pacifica, Saxifraga punctata var. pacifica, Saxifraga punctata var. porsildiana | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (D. Don) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 147. 1905 , | (Calder & Savile) Gornall & H. Ohba: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 395. (2008) | ||||||||||||||||
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