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Saxifraga taylorii
Family:
Saxifragaceae
Taylor's Saxifrage
FNA
Resources
Luc Brouillet, Patrick E. Elvander in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Plants
loosely mat-forming, stoloniferous, rhizomatous.
Leaves
cauline (crowded proxi-mally); petiole absent; blade broadly obovate, prominently 3-lobed apically (distal unlobed, reduced), (lobes lanceolate to oblong, mucronate), 4.5-12 mm, ± leathery, margins entire, (cartilaginous), stiffly ciliate, apex acute, not or slightly mucronate, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences
2-4-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary flowers, 3.5-13 cm, glabrous except bracts purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile.
Flowers:
sepals erect to ascending, (purplish), ovate to oblong, margins eciliate, surfaces glabrous; petals white to cream, not spotted, elliptic to obovate, 3.5-7 mm, much longer than sepals; ovary superior.
2
n
= 26, 52.
Flowering summer. Moist outcrops, rocky ledges, talus slopes; 100-1000 m; B.C.
Saxifraga taylorii
is known only from the Queen Charlotte Islands and northwestern Vancouver Island.
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This project made possible by
National Science Foundation Award 1410069
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