| Saxifraga bronchialis subsp. funstonii (Small) Hult. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga firma Litw., Leptasea funstonii Small, Saxifraga pseudo-burseriana Fisch. | ||
| Common name | spotted saxifrage | ||
| Description | Loosely caespitose; caudex branched, densely covered with elliptic, sessile, gray- ish-green leaves, mucronate in apex and with stout, white cilia in the margin, some- times capitate-glandular above; flowering stems with several linear leaves, more or less glandular; sepals glabrous or ciliate; petals white or cream-colored, spotted with yellow; follicles oblong, with long, divergent beaks. | ||
| Ecology | Rock crevices, rocky soil, in the mountains to at least 2,200 meters, not on cal- careous soil. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | In the high mountains, specimens occur with globular or sausage-like shoots and very dense leaves; these approach subsp. cherleroides (see next description). Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. |
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.