| Saxifraga oppositifolia L. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Antiphylla oppositifolia (L.) Fourr. | ||
| Common name | purple mountain saxifrage | ||
| Description | Matted; stem much branched, densely covered with opposite leaves in 4 rows; leaves oblong to obovate to broadly obovate, keeled, glabrous, ciliate with few coarse cilia; flowers sessile or nearly so; calyx lobes ovate, blunt, ciliated; petals reddish-violet, obovate, clawed, 2-2% times as long as calyx lobes; pedicels elon- gated in fruit; follicles with long style. | ||
| Ecology | Wet, stony slopes, heaths, ridges, rock crevices, solifluction soil; in the mountains to at least 2,160 meters in McKinley Park. Described from Spitzbergen, Lapland, Switzerland, the Pyrenees. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Flowers very early. |
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.