Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera acutifolia Rose, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 29: 438. 1905
Perennial with strong, erect or ascending rootstock ; flowering branches 3-5 dm. high, green, below slightly hairy, above somewhat glandular-puberulent; blades of the basal leaves 3-6 cm, wide, cordate, somewhat 3-5-lobed, the lobes more or less acute and triangular, when young very pubescent on both sides, sharply toothed, the teeth tipped by long hairs ; petioles usually much longer than the blades, sometimes 1 dm. long, densely clothed with long spreading hairs ; stipules broad, the free portion obtuse ; pedicels bearing sessile glands ; hypanthium whitish or rose-colored, together with the sepals 3-4 mm. long ; sepals broadly oblong, green at the rounded-obtuse tip ; petals white, narrowly linear-oblanceolate, about twice as long as the sepals ; stamens and styles long-exserted.
Type locality : Trinidad, on the border of the states of Puebla and Hidalgo.
- 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
