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Crevice Alumroot

Heuchera micrantha Dougl.

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Heuchera micrantha
Add to the illustrations: M. E. Parsons, Wild Fl. Calif. 59, /.; Armstrong, Field Book W. Wild Fl. 201,/.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1918. ROSACEAE (conclusio). North American flora. vol 22(6). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Heuchera micrantha Dougl. Bot. Reg. pL 1302. 1830
Heuchera Barbarossa Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 56. 1831.
Flowering branches 1-4-leaved or scapiform, 3-4 dm. high, villous-hirsute wath brown hairs, at least below ; petioles of basal leaves about 1 dm. long, densely villous-hirsute; blades rounded-cordate, 3-6 cm. long and about as broad, round-lobed and toothed with broadly ovate, cuspidate teeth, sparingly short-pubescent or glabrate above, long-hairy beneath, especially on the veins ; inflorescence finely glandular-puberulent ; bracts linear or the lower with linear-lanceolate attenuate teeth ; hypanthium appressed-pubescent, together with the ovate obtuse sepals 2-2.5 mm. long; petals oblanceolate, whitish.
Type locality : Mountainous woods, near the Grand Rapids of the Columbia. Distribution : From British Columbia to California.
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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
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Heuchera micrantha

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Heuchera micrantha is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name crevice alumroot, or small-flowered alumroot.[1]

Distribution

It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows on rocky slopes and cliffs.

Description

Each rounded flower has fleshy, hairy lobes tipped with tiny petals and protruding stamens and stigma.

This plant is quite variable in appearance. There are a number of wild and cultivated varieties. The leaves are lobed and usually coated in glandular hairs. They are green to reddish-green or purple-green in color and may have very long, gland-dotted petioles. The plant produces an erect inflorescence up to a meter high bearing many clusters of pink, white, or greenish flowers. Each rounded flower has fleshy, hairy lobes tipped with tiny petals and protruding stamens and stigma.

Native Americans pounded the root to make a poultice.[1]

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Heuchera micrantha: Brief Summary

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Heuchera micrantha is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name crevice alumroot, or small-flowered alumroot.

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