Saxifraga vespertina |
Saxifraga bronchialis |
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Matted saxifrage, saxifraga vespertina, spotted saxifrage, yellow dot saxifrage |
spotted saxifrage, yellowdot saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants forming loose mats, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. | Plants mat-forming, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. | ||||
Leaves | cauline (crowded proximally); petiole absent; blade spatulate, unlobed or minutely 3-toothed or -lobed apically, 4–11 mm, leathery, margins entire, (not cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex rounded or obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous. |
basal and cauline, (marcescent, crowded); petiole absent; blade (sometimes reddish), linear or linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, unlobed, 3–15 mm, leathery, margins entire, stiffly, often hooked, white-ciliate, sometimes also glandular-ciliate, apex acute, white spinulose-mucronate (spine 1–1.5 mm), surfaces glabrous, sometimes adaxially sparsely sessile-glandular. |
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Inflorescences | 3–6-flowered cymes, 2.5–12 cm, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. |
2–15-flowered cymes or thyrses, sometimes solitary flowers, 5–20 cm, sparsely short stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. |
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Flowers | sepals erect, ovate to oblong, margins sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous; petals white to cream, yellow-spotted proximally, red- or orange-spotted distally, these often faded in dried specimens, elliptic, 4–6 mm, much longer than sepals; ovary superior. |
sepals ± erect, (purplish), ovate to triangular, margins eciliate or sparsely glandular, surfaces glabrous or sparsely sessile-glandular; petals yellowish white, purple- or red- to yellow-spotted, oblong to elliptic, 3–7 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior. |
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2n | = 26. |
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Saxifraga vespertina |
Saxifraga bronchialis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Rocky slopes, ledges, crevices | |||||
Elevation | 100-1800 m (300-5900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
OR; WA
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AK; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT; Eurasia; arctic and alpine areas
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Discussion | Subspecies 4 (2 in the flora). The Saxifraga bronchialis complex, including S. cherlerioides, S. taylorii, S. tricuspidata, and S. vespertina, needs a thorough study. Saxifraga firma Litvinov ex Losina-Losinskaja has been cited for North America; the name belongs in synonymy of a Eurasian subspecies and appears to have been misapplied to North American specimens. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 142. | FNA vol. 8, p. 140. | ||||
Parent taxa | Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga | Saxifragaceae > Saxifraga | ||||
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Synonyms | Leptasea vespertina, S. bronchialis subsp. vespertina, S. bronchialis var. vespertina | |||||
Name authority | (Small) Fedde: Just’s Bot. Jahresber. 33(1): 613. (1906) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 400. 1753 , | ||||
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