Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Micranthes spicata (D. Don) Small
Saxifraga Geum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 311. 1814. Not 5. Geutn I/. 1753. Saxtfraga spicata D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc, 13 : 354. 1822.
Leaves erect or ascending, 6-8.5 cm. long, the blades suborbicular , or orbicular-ovate, thick, 3-5 cm. in diameter, dentate or crenate-dentate, with conspicuously stout glandtipped teeth, minutely pubescent on both sides, deeply cordate at the base, mainly as long as the more pubescent petioles or longer ; scapes erect, 18-38 cm. tall, glandular-pubescent, more densely so above than below, thyrsoid; cymules few-flowered, open, with the lower peduncles but slightly longer than the upper, the lower bract somewhat foliaceous ; sepals oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. long, usually not ciliolate, reflexed; petals white, 3-5 mm. long, slightly notched at the apex, oblong, more or less distinctly clawed ; filaments slender-clavate ; follicles 6-7.5 mm. high, the bodies erect with slender spreading tips.
Type locality : On the northwest coast (of North America). Distribution : Alaska to British Columbia.
- 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
