Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptasea flagellaris (Wilid.) Small
Saxifraga flagellaris Willd.; Sternb. Rev. Saxifr. 25. 1810.
Saxifraga seiigera Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 312. 1814.
Hir alius flagellaris Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 41. 1821.
Saxifraga flagellaris setigera Kngler, Monogr. Saxifr. 225. 1872.
Leaves of the caudices 7-16 mm. long, crowded, more or less spreading, some of them subtending slender arching offsets, each of which bears a tuft of leaves at the apex, the blades cuneate, oblong-cuneate or spatulate, spine-tipped, glandularciliate ; flower-stalks 4-15 cm. tall, glandular-pubescent, sometimes sparingly so near the base, 1-f ew-flowered ; sepals ovate or oblong-ovate, 4-5.5 mm. long, glandular-ciliate, obtuse; petals yellow, cuneate or obovate, 6.5-9 mm. long, each abruptly contracted into a short claw; filaments subulate.
Type locality : Caucasus.
Distribution : Circumboreal and alpine, extending southward in the Rqcky Mountains to
- 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
