The saxifrage saxifrage ( lat. Saxifrága rivularis ) is a species of herbaceous plants of the genus Saxifraga ( Saxifraga ) of the family Saxifragaceae .
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Botanical Description
Perennial herb 3-10 cm tall. The stems are numerous, straight, covered with white hairs. The leaves are light green, fleshy, 3-5 lobed. Basal leaves are long-leaved; stem - short, integral, oblong, sessile. Stipules wide, ciliated [3] .
The flowers are white, located in the axils of the leaves. Calyx is glandular, half dissected, with elongated lobes. Petals are back-oval or oblong-oval, 3-4 mm long. It blooms from June to July. The fruit is a spherical box [3] .
Described from Lapland . Type in London [3] .
Ecology and distribution
It lives in the polar-Arctic and alpine regions, in the tundra , forest belt of mountains, along the banks of keys, on pebbles [3] .
It occurs in the Arctic , Scandinavia , the Far East , and North America [3] .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 see taxon card on TPL
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Flora of the USSR, 1939 .
Literature
- Lozina-Lozinskaya A. S. Rod 706. Saxifraga - Saxifraga L. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 t / h. ed. V.L. Komarov . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1939. - T. 9 / ed. volumes S.V. Yuzepchuk . - S. 172-173. - 540, XIX p. - 5200 copies.
Links
- Brookstone saxifrage : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and illustrated atlas of species).