Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera pringlei Rydb. sp. nov
Acaulescent and cespitose; flowering branches 2-3 dm. high, glandular-puberulent and somewhat hirsute below ; petioles 2-4 cm. long, more or less hirsute ; blades orbicular or rounded-ovate, truncate or cuneate at the base, 2-3.5 cm. wide, glandular-puberulent and somewhat hirsutulous on the veins, slightly lobed and with broadly ovate, bristletipped teeth ; inflorescence rather dense ; hypanthium rounded-campanulate, glandularpuberulent and somewhat crisp-hairy, together with the sepals 3-4 mm. long; sepals rounded-oval; petals linear-oblanceolate, about twice as long as the sepals; stamens of the same length.
Type collected at Castle Lake, Siskiyou County, California, in 1881, by C. G. Pringle. Distribution : Type locality and in the Yosemite Valley.
- 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
