| Saxifraga tolmiei Torr. & Gray | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Leptasia tolmiei (Torr. & Gray) Small. | ||
| Common name | alpine saxifrage | ||
| Description | Matted with numerous sterile shoots; leaves entire, fleshy, oblanceolate to spatu- late or ovate, glabrous, or with very few cilia at base; flowering stems glabrous or pubescent, with capitate glands; calyx lobes glabrous, ovate-triangular, purple- mottled; petals white, nearly clawless; filaments clavate; capsule ovoid, purple- mottled. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places in the mountains, rock-crevices. Described from the northwest coast of North America. |
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.