Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera pachypoda Greene, Leaflets 111. 1905
Acaulescent, with a stout subligneous rootstock ; flowering branches about 1.5 dm. high, purplish, glandular-puberulent, scapiform and naked ; petioles 0.5-1.5 cm. long, glandularpubescent and somewhat hirsute ; leaf-blades hispidulous on both sides, rounded-reniform, 8-15 mm. wide, rounded 5-lobed, each lobe with 2-4 triangular-ovate teeth ; inflorescence more or less one-sided, glandular-puberulent, its branches racemiform ; hypanthium glandular-puberulent, campanulate, together with the sepals nearly 5 mm. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, sparingly white-hairy and green-tipped ; petals oblanceolate, about twice as long as the sepals and equaling the stamens.
Type locality : Long Pine, Inyo County, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
