| Saxifraga mertensiana Bong. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Heterisia mertensiana (Bong.) Small. | ||
| Common name | wood saxifrage | ||
| Description | Rootstock thick, short, with brown scales, and with bulblets at tip; leaves orbicu- lar, cordate, acutely toothed, glabrous, ciliate with long, slender glands; flowering stem with few reduced leaves, glandular; sepals ovate-triangular, glandular, re- flexed; petals white, acute; filaments broader toward tip; follicles broadly ovate, with long, divergent styles. | ||
| Ecology | Moist rocks. |
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.