Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Saxifragopsis fragarioides (Greene) Small, Bull. Torrey Club 23 : 20
1896.
Saxifraga fragarioides Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 8 : 121. 1881.
Rootstock and caudex clothed with the scarious leaf-bases, branched ; leaves numerous, the petioles slender, 1.5-6 cm. long, channeled above, widely dilated at the base; leaflet solitary, the blade thin, cuneate, 1.5-4.5 cm. long, flabellately veined, coarsely toothed at the apex or above the middle; flower-stalks straw-like, usually several together, 1-3 dm. tall, sparingly pubescent, bearing few leaves ; panicle at length open, the cymes slenderpeduncled; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. long, ciliate, reflexed; petals spatulate, acute or apiculate, 2.5-3 mm. long, persistent and reflexed ; filaments winged at base ; fruit conic, 4.5-6 mm. long, the follicles slender-beaked.
Type locality : High mountains west of Mt. Shasta, California. Distribution : Northern California and southern Oregon.
- 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
