Micranthes spicata |
Micranthes tischii |
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Olympic saxifrage, tisch's saxifrage |
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Habit | Plants solitary or tufted, short, thick-rhizomatous. | Plants solitary or in groups, with bulbils on caudices. |
Leaves | basal; petiole rounded, 4–15 cm; blade round, ovate, or reniform, 3–15 cm, thin, base cordate, margins serrate to dentate, ciliate, surfaces hairy to glabrate. |
basal; petiole flattened, 0.4–2 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 0.5–2.5 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins serrate (7–16-toothed), ciliate, surfaces reddish brown-tomentose abaxially, glabrous or rarely glabrate adaxially. |
Inflorescences | 15+-flowered, congested, spikelike thyrses, 15–50(–70) cm, tangled, pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
(3–)5–15(–18)-flowered, open, flat-topped thyrses or cymes, 2–7 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. |
Flowers | sepals reflexed, oblong to ovate; petals cream to yellowish, not spotted, oblong, not clawed, 3–4.5 mm, longer than sepals; filaments narrowly club-shaped; pistils connate at least 1/2 their lengths; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate; petals greenish, often purple-margined, not spotted, lanceolate to obovate, not clawed, 1.2–2(–2.5) mm, equaling to longer than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary superior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). |
Capsules | green, purplish tinged, ± folliclelike, (basally connate). |
purplish, folliclelike. |
Micranthes spicata |
Micranthes tischii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Wet tundra, heaths, moist, rocky areas, streamsides | Wet, cool, shaded, thin-soil ledges and rock crevices |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 1300-2400 m (4300-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; YT |
WA; BC |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Micranthes tischii is known only from the Olympic Peninsula and from inland, mountainous Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Ogilvie & Beguin 798911, V). Closely related to M. rufidula, M. tischii appears to be highly specialized for its habitat. The unusual persistent, green, not clawed (versus deciduous, white, clawed) petals readily distinguish the two species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 57. | FNA vol. 8, p. 63. |
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Synonyms | Saxifraga spicata | Saxifraga tischii |
Name authority | (D. Don) Small: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 146. (1905) | (Skelly) Brouillet & Gornall: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 1021. 2007 , |
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