Micranthes palmeri |
Micranthes nelsoniana |
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Palmer's saxifrage |
dotted saxifrage, heartleaf saxifrage, Nelson's saxifrage, saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on branched caudices, 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 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. |
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Inflorescences | 30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes almost secund), very open, lax thyrses, 6–50 cm, hairy proximally, densely so distally. |
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. |
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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, ± 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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Capsules | green with reddish or purplish tinge, or reddish purple, folliclelike. |
green to yellow and purplish tinged to dark purple, valvate. |
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Micranthes palmeri |
Micranthes nelsoniana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Rocky, open woodlands | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 100-1000 m (300-3300 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AR; OK |
AK; OR; WA; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT; Europe (ne Russia); Asia
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 61. | FNA vol. 8, p. 54. | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Saxifraga palmeri, Saxifraga virginiensis var. subintegra | Saxifraga nelsoniana, Saxifraga punctata subsp. nelsoniana, Saxifraga punctata var. nelsoniana | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Bush: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 11: 221. 1928 , | (D. Don) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 147. 1905 , | ||||||||||||||||
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