Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera utahensis Rydb. sp. nov
Heiuliera parvifolia S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 96, in part. 1871.
Acaulescent; flowering branches 5-6 dm. high, minutely puberulent; petioles 6-10 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so ; blades reniform, the basal lobes usually overlapping, 5-8 cm. broad, almost glabrous and shining, crenate with rounded or truncate teeth ; inflorescence narrow, but open ; hypanthium greenish, together with the triangular sepals about 3 mm. long ; petals spatulate, scarcely equaling the sepals.
Type collected in City Creek Canon, Utah, at an altitude of 2,200 meters, in 1880, by M. E. Jones.
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Distribution : Hills and canons of Utah.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
