| Saxifraga serpyllifolia Pursh | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leptasia serpyllifolia (Pursh) Small. | ||
| Description | Loosely tufted, with numerous sterile shoots; basal leaves shiny, fleshy, spatulate, blunt, glabrous, with reflexed margin; flowering stems with few, linear leaves, glandular-pubescent; calyx lobes broadly ovate, often purplish, reflexed in fruit; petals bright yellow twice as long as calyx lobes or longer; filaments subular, shorter than petals. | ||
| Ecology | Rock slides, dry places in the mountains to at least 2,200 meters. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Var. purpurea Hult. (at False Pass, Unimak Island), has purple petals. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of the closely related S. chry- santha Gray. |
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.