Micranthes rufidula |
Micranthes ferruginea |
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rusty-hair saxifrage |
Alaska saxifrage, rusty hair saxifrage, rusty saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or in groups, with bulbils on caudices, or rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or tufted, with bulbils on caudices, short-rhizomatous. |
Leaves | basal; petiole flattened, 4–8 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 1–4 cm, fleshy, base attenuate to ± truncate, margins serrate (15–30- toothed), eciliate, surfaces densely tangled, reddish brown-hairy abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
basal; petiole indistinct, flattened, to 2 cm; blade spatulate to oblanceolate, 1–8(–10) cm, ± fleshy, base cuneate, margins irregularly serrate (usually with fewer than 12 coarse teeth), ciliate, surfaces hairy. |
Inflorescences | 15+-flowered, open, flat-topped thyrses, 5–20 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; (bracts often tangled brown-hairy). |
20–30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes replaced ± completely by bulbils, or bulbils sometimes absent), open, lax thyrses, 10–40 cm, moderately to ± densely purple stipitate-glandular; (bracts reduced). |
Flowers | sepals spreading, ovate, (often tangled brown-hairy); petals white, not spotted, ovate to elliptic, clawed, 2–4 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened to slightly club-shaped; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
± bilaterally symmetric; sepals reflexed, ovate to oblong; petals white, 3 with 2 basal yellow spots, 2 without spots, elliptic to oblanceolate, clawed, 3–5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate 1/2+ their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
Capsules | greenish to reddish purple, folliclelike. |
green or yellow, sometimes purple tinged, or partly purple, valvate. |
2n | = 20, 38, 56, 58. |
= 20. |
Micranthes rufidula |
Micranthes ferruginea |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–summer. | Flowering summer–early autumn. |
Habitat | Wet to dry, rocky ledges | Wet ledges, seepage slopes, stream banks |
Elevation | 0-3000 m (0-9800 ft) | 10-2700 m (0-8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT
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Discussion | Plants with bulbils replacing flowers are more common in the southern part (southern Alberta and British Columbia southwards) of the range of Micranthes ferruginea and have been called Saxifraga ferruginea var. macounii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 62. | FNA vol. 8, p. 58. |
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes | Saxifragaceae > Micranthes |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga aequidentata, Saxifraga occidentalis subsp. rufidula, Saxifraga occidentalis var. rufidula, Saxifraga rufidula | Saxifraga ferruginea, Saxifraga ferruginea var. macounii, Saxifraga ferruginea var. newcombei, Saxifraga ferruginea var. vreelandii, Saxifraga newcombei |
Name authority | Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 140. (1905) | (Graham) Brouillet & Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1020. 2007 , |
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