Micranthes petiolaris |
Micranthes calycina |
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Michaux's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices. | Plants solitary or in clusters, rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole somewhat flattened, 2–6 cm; blade oblanceolate, 2–12 cm, thin, basecuneate to ± attenuate, margins usually 15+-toothed (teeth large, lobelike), densely long glandular-ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
basal; petiole ± distinct, flattened, (0.5–)1–3.5 cm; blade rhombic or fan-shaped, sometimes nearly round, (1–)1.5–3.5 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate to ± cuneate, margins 7–11-toothed in distal 1/2–2/3 (teeth 1–3 mm), sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 30+-flowered, very open, lax thyrses, (flowers rarely replaced by bulbils), 10–40 cm, densely tangled, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; (bracts leaflike, gradually reduced distally). |
3–15-flowered, usually racemiform, sometimes paniculiform thyrses, 3–15 cm, axis glabrous or sparsely long-hairy, branches ± densely (rarely sparsely) long tangled-hairy; (bracts reduced). |
Flowers | slightly bilaterally symmetric; sepals reflexed, oblong to elliptic; petals white, 3 with 2 basal yellow spots, 2 without spots, oblanceolate to spatulate, clawed, 3–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior. |
sepals reflexed, lanceolate to ovate; petals white to cream, sometimes purplish, not spotted, linear to narrowly elliptic, not clawed, 2–4 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths, (conic); ovary ± 1/2 inferior. |
Capsules | green to yellow, sometimes purple tinged, valvate |
purple-black, valvate. |
2n | = 24. |
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Micranthes petiolaris |
Micranthes calycina |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early autumn. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Wet ledges, boulderfields, and rocky slopes, usually in thin soil over rock | Flushes, stream banks, tundra, around late snowbeds, screes |
Elevation | 500-2100 m (1600-6900 ft) | (0-)30-1700 m ((0-)100-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
GA; KY; MD; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV
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AK; e Asia (Russian Far East) |
Discussion | Micranthes petiolaris (Rafinesque) Brouillet & Gornall is an isonym. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Micranthes calycina is found mostly in western Alaska, in the north from the Seward Peninsula to the Brooks Range west of Atigun Pass, and in the south from Unimak Island and the Ahklum Mountains to the Saint Elias Mountains. It is also present on the main Bering Sea islands, but apparently not on the Aleutians west of Unimak. Plants of this species sometimes have been misidentified as M. davurica (Willdenow) Small, a species restricted to eastern Siberia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 58. | FNA vol. 8, p. 59. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Hexaphoma petiolaris, Saxifraga michauxii, Saxifraga petiolaris | Saxifraga calycina, Saxifraga davurica subsp. grandipetala, Saxifraga davurica var. grandipetala |
Name authority | (Rafinesque) Bush: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 11: 225. 1928 , | (Sternberg) Gornall & H. Ohba: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. (2007) |
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