Saxifraga flagellaris |
Saxifraga chrysantha |
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Alaska saxifrage, nodding saxifrage, spider plant, spider saxifrage, stoloniferous or spider or spider-legged saxifrage, stoloniferous saxifrage, whiplash saxifrage |
goldbloom saxifrage, golden-saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants in solitary clumps, stoloniferous, slenderly rhizomatous. | Plants mat-forming, not stoloniferous, slenderly rhizomatous. | ||||||||
Leaves | basal and cauline; petiole absent; blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic to obovate, unlobed, 5–20 mm, fleshy, margins entire, sparsely to densely, coarsely glandular-ciliate, distal sometimes ciliate, apex acute to ± obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous. |
basal and cauline, (basal crowded, cauline 3–5+); petiole absent; blade linear-oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, unlobed, (2–)3–10(–12) mm, fleshy, margins (recurved), entire, eciliate, sometimes sparsely glandular-ciliate, apex rounded, surfaces glabrous, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular. |
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Inflorescences | 2–3(–5)-flowered, lax cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 1–15 cm, densely purplish-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. |
2(–3)-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 2–8 cm, sparsely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. |
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Flowers | sepals erect, elliptic or oblong-ovate, margins stipitate glandular-ciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular; petals yellow, not spotted, elliptic to broadly obovate, 4–9(–10) mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior to ca. 1/2 inferior. |
sepals strongly reflexed, oblong to ovate, margins densely glandular-ciliate, sometimes eciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular; petals bright golden yellow, sometimes orange-tipped proximally, not spotted, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior. |
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Saxifraga flagellaris |
Saxifraga chrysantha |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Alpine tundra, wet talus slopes, rocky areas | |||||||||
Elevation | 2700-4500 m (8900-14800 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CO; ID; MT; NM; UT; WY; AB; BC; NT; NU; YT; Asia (c Asia, Caucasus, Russian Far East, Siberia); Atlantic Islands (Svalbard)
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CO; MT; NM; UT; WY
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Discussion | Subspecies ca. 8 (3 in the flora). Although sometimes reported from North America, subspecies flagellaris is not present in the flora area; it is native in Eurasia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 138. | FNA vol. 8, p. 140. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga | Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Hirculus serpyllifolius subsp. chrysanthus, S. serpyllifolia subsp. chrysantha, S. serpyllifolia var. chrysantha | |||||||||
Name authority | Willdenow: in C. M. von Sternberg, Revis. Saxifrag. 1: 25, plate 6. 1810 , | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 83. 1876 , | ||||||||
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