Entry for Heuchera americana Linnaeus var. hispida (Pursh) E. F. Wells [family SAXIFRAGACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Heuchera americana Linnaeus var. hispida (Pursh) E. F. Wells [family SAXIFRAGACEAE], Rhodora, 81: 576. 1979 ,
Heuchera hispida Pursh [family SAXIFRAGACEAE], Fl. Amer. Sept., 1: 188. 1813
Discussion
Variety hispida occurs in the mountains and hills of western Maryland and Virginia, eastern West Virginia, and Surry County, North Carolina, where var. americana and Heuchera pubescens overlap; it is intermediate between var. americana and H. pubescens in floral characters. Variety hispida was confused with H. richardsonii for almost a century, beginning in 1849 when Gray reduced H. richardsonii to synonymy under H. hispida, after some seeds of H. richardsonii germinated among H. hispida plants in a labeled plot and later replaced them (C. O. Rosendahl et al. 1933).
