| Saxifraga hirculus L. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leptasea alaskana Small. | ||
| Common name | bog saxifrage | ||
| Description | More or less tufted, often with short runners; basal leaves lanceolate to ligulate, entire, obtuse, petiolated, glabrous; flowering stem pubescent with curly, septate, reddish hairs above, erect, with 3 to several linear, sessile leaves; flowers mostly solitary; sepals ciliate with septate hairs, soon reflexed; petals yellow, obtuse, fol- licles joined almost to tip. | ||
| Ecology | Bogs, meadows. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Northern specimens and specimens from the shores of Bering Sea belong to var. propinqua (R. Br.) Simm. (S. propinqua R. Br.), with few stem leaves and rounded petals, but the material cannot be readily separated into 2 taxa. S. hirculus described from Lapland, Siberia, and Switzerland; var. propinqua from Melville Island. |
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.