| Saxifraga hieracifolia Waldst. & Kit. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga integrifolia | ||
| Common name | stiff-stemmed saxifrage | ||
| Description | Highly variable; stem single, straight, thick, up to 50 cm tall, often branched, densely glandular; leaves green above, often red below, broadly lanceolate, oblong to rhombic, thick, petiolated, remotely dentate to nearly entire, glandular-ciliate in margin, glabrous on sides, or, rarely, reddish-pubescent below (var. rufopilosa Hult.); calyx lobes broadly triangular; petals oblong to triangular, greenish to purplish. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places on tundra, alpine meadows, solifluction soil. Described from the Carpathians in (historical) Hungary. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.