Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
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.
- 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
