| Saxifraga caespitosa L. | |||
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| Family | Saxifragaceae — APG family: Saxifragaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Saxifraga groenlandica L. | ||
| Common name | tufted saxifrage | ||
| Description | Densely tufted or matted; stems with marcescent leaves at base; leaves short- petiolated, palmately 3-5-lobed, with linear to oblong, obtuse lobes; flowering stems 1-flowered to few-flowered, erect, glandular; petals oblong, white; follicles nearly entirely adnate. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, sandy places on tundra; to at least 2,300 meters in the St. Elias Range. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Most specimens belong to subsp. sileneflora (Sternb.) Hult. (S. sileneflora Sternb.), but other races, such as subsp. monticola (Small) Pors. (Muscaria monticola Small), have been reported from the area. Racial conditions within the species are still un- clear. S. caespitosa described from the Alps of Lapland, Switzerland, Trent (north- ern Italy), and Montpellier (France) ; subsp. sileneflora from Unalaska, Eschscholtz Bay, and Chamisso Island (Kotzebue Sound). The closely related S. magellanica Poir. is found in South 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.