Saxifraga flagellaris
Saxifraga flagellaris subsp. setigera
Alaska saxifrage, nodding saxifrage, spider plant, spider saxifrage, stoloniferous or spider or spider-legged saxifrage, stoloniferous saxifrage, whiplash saxifrage
stoloniferous saxifrage, whiplash saxifrage
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.
2–3(–5)-flowered, lax cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 1–15 cm, densely purplish-tipped stipitate-glandular;
bracts sessile.
4–15 cm;
bract blade shorter than internode.
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.
hypanthium whitish-tipped stipitate-glandular;
sepals mostly green, narrowly elliptic to oblong, whitish stipitate-glandular;
petals obovate, length ca. 2 times sepals;
ovary superior.
= 16.
Saxifraga flagellaris
Saxifraga flagellaris subsp. setigera
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.)
1. Ovaries superior; inflorescence bract blades shorter than internodes. | subsp. setigera |
1. Ovaries at least 1/2 inferior; inflorescence bract blades longer than internodes | → 2 |
2. Inflorescences (2-)4-15 cm; hypanthia and sepals whitish- and black-tipped stipitate-glandular; petals elliptic to narrowly obovate, length to 2 times sepals. | subsp. crandallii |
2. Inflorescences 1-4(-6) cm; hypanthia and sepals black-tipped stipitate-glandular; petals broadly obovate, length 2+ times sepals. | subsp. platysepala |
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