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Saxifraga flagellaris

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Name

Identification
Saxifraga flagellaris Willd. [family SAXIFRAGACEAE ] Isotype of Saxifraga flagellaris Hulten [family SAXIFRAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hiroshi Hara, Saxifraga mucronulata (Hultén) H.Hara [family SAXIFRAGACEAE ]
Related name
  • Saxifraga stenophylla
  • Saxifraga setigera
  • Saxifraga mucronulata
  • Saxifraga spinulosa
  • Saxifraga flagellaris
  • Saxifraga radicans
  • Saxifraga aurea
Common name
  • Stoloniferous or spider or spider-legged saxifrage, Flora of North America Vol. 8
  • spider plant, Flora of North America Vol. 8

Flora

Entry for Saxifraga flagellaris Willdenow [family SAXIFRAGACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Saxifraga flagellaris Willdenow [family SAXIFRAGACEAE], in C. M. von Sternberg, Revis. Saxifrag., 1: 25, plate 6. 1810 ,
Treatment Author(s)
Luc Brouillet
Patrick E. Elvander†
Information
Plants in solitary clumps, stoloniferous, slenderly rhizom-atous. Leaves basal and cauline; petiole absent; blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic to obovate, unlobed, 5–20 mm, fleshy, margins entire, sparsely to densely, coarsely glandular-ciliate, distal sometimes ciliate, apex acute to ± obtuse, mucronate, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 2–3(–5)-flowered, lax cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 1–15 cm, densely purplish-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. Flowers: sepals erect, elliptic or oblong-ovate, margins stipitate glandular-ciliate, surfaces stipitate-glandular; petals yellow, not spotted, elliptic to broadly obovate, 4–9(–10) mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior to ca. 1/2 inferior.
Distribution
North AmericaAsia (c Asia, Caucasus, Russian Far East, Siberia)Atlantic Islands (Svalbard).
Discussion
Although sometimes reported from North America, subspecies flagellaris is not present in the flora area; it is native in Eurasia.

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