Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera hirsuticaulis (Wheelock) Rydb.; Britton, Man. 482. 1901
Heuchera hispida hirsuticaulis Wheelock, Bull. Torrey Club 17 : 199. 1890,
Acaulescent ; flowering branches scapiform, densely villous-hirsute with white or yellowish hairs, 4-7 dm. long; petioles 5-15 cm. long, also densely hirsute ; blades reniform or roundedcordate, 4-8 cm. in diameter, with 9-11 rounded lobes and broad mucronate teeth, hirsute on both sides or in age glabrate above ; inflorescence hirsute and glandularpuberulent ; bracts lanceolate, pectinately toothed ; hypanthium campanulate, glandularpuberulent, greenish, more or less oblique, together with the oblong very obtuse sepals about 5 mm. long; petals spatulate, green, puberulent, short-clawed and about equaling the sepals ; filaments about twice as long.
Type locality : St. Louis, Missouri.
Distribution : Rocky banks, Michigan and Illinois to Indiana and Missouri.
- 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
