| Saxifraga eschscholtzii Sternb. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga fimbriata D. Don, Leptasea fimbriata (D. Don) Small. | ||
| Common name | cushion saxifrage | ||
| Description | Pulvinate, forming rounded, compact cushions; spherical shoots with obovate, glabrous leaves, ciliate in margin, with large hyaline cilia, broad at base; flowering stem very short, up to 10 mm long, slender, leafless; flowers more or less unisexual, the female with large purplish carpels, divergent in apex, and stamens with small anthers, the male with abortive carpels and large yellow anthers; sepals ciliate, re- flexed in fruit; petals very narrow, yellow. _ | ||
| Ecology | Crevices in rocks, ledges, calcareous gravel, in the mountains to over 2,000 meters. |
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.