| Saxifraga lyallii subsp. hultenii (Calder & Savile) Calder & Savile | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga lyallii var. hultenii Calder & Savile. | ||
| Common name | red-stemmed saxifrage | ||
| Description | Plant with long, dark-brown rootstock; basal leaves flabellate, dentate, abruptly contracted into long petiole, glabrous or somewhat pubescent with brownish septate hairs; flowering stem leafless, mostly glabrous at base, pubescent with capitate glands above; inflorescence with lanceolate bracts; calyx lobes reflexed, mostly purplish; petals oblong to orbicular, white or reddish, with 2 yellowish or greenish spots; follicles sometimes 3—4. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, snow beds, in the mountains to at least 1,235 meters. Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. Lyallii. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Hybrids with S. punctata occur. |
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.