Pink Alumroot

Heuchera rubescens Torr. in Stansb. Expl. Utah 388. 1852
Acaulescent; flowering branches scapiform, naked, 2-A^ dm. high, straw-colored, shining, glabrous or slightly glandular-puberulent; petioles 3-6 cm. long, glabrous or glandular-puberulent ; leaf-blades reniform or rounded-cordate, 2-A cm. in diameter, perfectly glabrous or minutely glandular-puberulent, or rarely with a few hairs on the veins, thick, shining, rounded 5-lobed and with rounded, ovate, bristle-pointed teeth ; hypanthium campanulate, pinkish, glandular-puberulent, together with the oblong, obtuse, pilose, greentipped sepals about 5 mm. long; petals linear-oblanceolate, acute, almost twice as long as the sepals and nearly equaling the stamens.
Type locality : Summit of mountains on Stansbury's Island, Utah. Distribution : Mountains, Utah and New Mexico to Oregon and eastern California.

Heuchera rubescens, with the common name pink alumroot, is a species of Heuchera.

The small perennial plant is native to the Western United States and northern Mexico. It grows in dry, rocky places.