Micranthes palmeri |
Micranthes californica |
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Palmer's saxifrage |
California saxifrage, Greene's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices. | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices, or rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 1–9 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 2–8 cm, slightly fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or subentire, ciliate, surfaces tangled, reddish brown-hairy. |
basal; petiole flattened, 2–5 cm; blade ovate, 2–7 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins serrate, rarely subentire, ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
Inflorescences | 30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes almost secund), very open, lax thyrses, 6–50 cm, hairy proximally, densely so distally. |
20+-flowered, (flowers often secund), open, lax thyrses with distant lateral branches, 15–30(–40) cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | sepals erect to ascending, ovate to triangular; petals white, not spotted, broadly oblong to elliptic, not clawed, 3–6 mm, 2+ times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary ± superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
sepals reflexed, sometimes spreading, triangular to ovate; petals white, not spotted, elliptic to oblong, clawed, 2.5–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior, appearing superior in fruit. |
Capsules | green with reddish or purplish tinge, or reddish purple, folliclelike. |
purplish, folliclelike. |
Micranthes palmeri |
Micranthes californica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering winter–early spring. |
Habitat | Rocky, open woodlands | Shaded fields, rocky or unstable slopes, stream banks |
Elevation | 100-1000 m (300-3300 ft) | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) |
Distribution |
AR; OK |
CA; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 61. | FNA vol. 8, p. 64. |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga palmeri, Saxifraga virginiensis var. subintegra | Saxifraga californica, M. parvifolia, Saxifraga fallax, Saxifraga hallii, Saxifraga parvifolia, Saxifraga virginiensis var. californica |
Name authority | Bush: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 11: 221. 1928 , | (Greene) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 140. (1905) |
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