| Saxifraga bracteata D. Don | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga cymbalaria Cham., Saxifraga rivularis var. laurentiana (Ser.) Engler., Saxifraga laurentiana Ser. | ||
| Description | Glandular-pubescent; rootstock with pale bulblets at top; stems coarse, mostly single; leaves carnose; basal leaves long-petiolated, broadly reniform, with 5-8 large, rounded, sometimes acute teeth; uppermost stem leaves sessile, crowded; pedicels very short; flowers nearly capitate; calyx lobes glabrous, obtuse; petals twice as long as calyx lobes, white, broadly ovate, distinctly clawed; follicles ovate; style very short. | ||
| Ecology | Rocks and stony slopes along the coast. |
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.