Comprehensive Description
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Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Spatularia ferruginea (Graham) Small
Saxifraga ferruginea Graham, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 1828: 348. 1829. Hexaphoma ferruginea Raf. Fl. Tell. 2 : 66. 1836.
Plants 1-1.5 dm. tall, pubescent throughout with ultimately reddish hairs; leaves crowded on the short caudex, the blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 1.5-6.5 cm. long, prominently toothed near the apex or above the middle, copiously pubescent, especially beneath; scapes solitary or several together, corymbosely branched above ; bracts much smaller than the leaves ; flowers not replaced by clusters of bulblets ; sepals ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, sparingly ciliate ; petals 3.5-4 mm. long, the 3 upper with lanceolate-cordate blades, the 2 lower with elliptic or spatulate blades ; follicles 4.5-5 mm. long, the minute style-tips spreading.
Type locality : Arctic America? First described from plants raised from seeds in the Edinburgh Botanical Garden.
Distribution : Alaska to British Columbia.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- 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
