Micranthes odontoloma |
Micranthes bryophora |
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brook saxifrage, stream saxifrage, streambank saxifrage |
bud saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or sometimes grouped, rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | 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. |
± basal; petiole absent; blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 0.5–4 cm, fleshy, base cuneate, margins subentire, ciliate, surfaces hirsute. |
Inflorescences | 10–30+-flowered, open, lax, flat-topped thyrses, 20–65(–85) cm, glabrous proximally, purple-tipped subsessile-glandular distally. |
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). |
Flowers | 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. |
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Capsules | green to purple, ± folliclelike. |
green to yellow, purple tinged, valvate. |
2n | = 24, 48. |
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Micranthes odontoloma |
Micranthes bryophora |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–early autumn. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Wet meadows and stream banks | Wet meadows, rocky ledges |
Elevation | 1500-4000 m (4900-13100 ft) | 1600-4500 m (5200-14800 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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CA; ID
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Discussion | 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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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 56. | FNA vol. 8, p. 58. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga odontoloma | Saxifraga bryophora, Saxifraga bryophora var. tobiasiae |
Name authority | (Piper) A. Heller: Muhlenbergia 8: 60. 1912 , | (A. Gray) Brouillet & Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. (2007) |
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