Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera ovalifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 581. 1840
Heuchera cylindrica alpina ' S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 94. 1871. Heuchera cylindrica ovalifolia Wheelock, Bull. Torrey Club 17 : 203. 1890. Heuchera saxicola E. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 30 : 118. 1900. Heuchera alpina Blankinship, Mont. Agr. Coll. Sci. Stud. 1 : 62. 1905.
Acaulescent ; flowering branches scapiform, naked, densely glandular-pubescent with short hairs, as well as the petioles, which are 5-10 cm. long ; leaf-blades rounded-oval, 1.54 cm. broad and 2-5 cm. long, truncate, rounded, or slightly cordate at the base, round-
An alpine form almost matching the original H. ovalifolia. lobed, and crenate with rounded mucronate teeth ; inflorescence short and dense, less than 1 dm. long ; hypanthium deeply campanulate. yellowish, densely short-hirsute, together with the broadly oblong sepals about 7 mm. long; petals usually wanting.
Type locality : Blue Mountains, Oregon.
Distribution : Rocky banks and hillsides, Alberta and British Columbia to Wyoming, Nevada and 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
