| Saxifraga aizoides L. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga van-bruntiae Small. | ||
| Common name | golden saxifrage | ||
| Description | Stems decumbent, forming mats; leaves light green, sessile, linear, succulent, acu- minate, glabrous, sparsely glandular-ciliate; flowering stems branched, few-flowered, glandular-puberulent; calyx lobes triangular, obtuse or somewhat acute; petals yellow, linear-oblong, clawless, longer than calyx lobes; carpels adnate at base. | ||
| Ecology | Along creeks in the mountains. Described from Lapland, Steiermark, Westmore- land, and Monte Baldo (northern Italy). | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Petals are yellow in the area of interest; in the Rocky Mountains, sometimes orange-dotted; and in Scandinavia, sometimes also orange or purple. |
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.