| Saxifraga tricuspidata Rottb. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leptasea tricuspidata (Rottb.) Small. | ||
| Common name | prickly saxifrage | ||
| Description | Evergreen, loosely matted, with elongated (rarely spherical) caudices covered with withered leaves; leaves leathery, brownish-green, cuneate to oblanceolate, ciliate, with 3 apical mucronate teeth; flowering stem above, and inflorescence capitate-glandular; calyx lobes broadly triangular; petals elliptic, clawless, white, with yellow spots at base, red spots at tips; filaments subulate. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, sandy places, rock crevices, ridges; common in the mountains; in the Yukon to at least 2,000 meters. Described from Greenland. |
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.