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|accepted_name=Heuchera pubescens
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=1: 187. 1813,
}}
|common_names=Downy alum-root
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Heuchera pubescens var. brachyandra
|authority=Rosendahl, Butters & Lakela
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Heuchera;Heuchera pubescens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Heuchera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Heuchera pubescens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 84, 88, 94, 96
|treatment_page=page 95
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>acaulescent; caudex branched. <b>Flowering</b> stems often leafy, 30–95 cm, short stipitate-glandular. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole glabrous or short stipitate-glandular; blade broadly ovate to cordate, shallowly 5-lobed, 3–9 cm, base cordate to nearly truncate, lobes rounded to widely ovate, margins dentate, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces glabrous or sparsely short stipitate-glandular, at least on veins abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> diffuse. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium moderately bilaterally symmetric, free 2–6.2 mm, green, campanulate, abruptly inflated distal to adnation to ovary, 5.5–13.2 mm, very short stipitate-glandular; sepals spreading, green-tipped, equal, 2–4.2 mm, apex rounded (sinuses narrower than petals); petals inflexed, pink or purple, broadly spatulate, unlobed, 2.4–4.4 mm, margins fimbriate; stamens 1.1 mm included to 3.7 mm exserted; styles from 0.6 mm included to 3 mm exserted, 4–6 mm, to 0.1 mm diam. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 7–11 mm, not papillose. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, ellipsoid, 0.6–1 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Shaded circumneutral rock outcroppings, ledges, and rocky cuts
|elevation=100-1400 m
|distribution=Md.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Heuchera pubescens</i> intergrades with <i>H. americana</i> where their ranges overlap, primarily in the central Appalachians of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia; the intergrading form is recognized here as <i>H. americana </i>var.<i> hispida</i>. It is rare in South Carolina.</p>
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name=Heuchera pubescens
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Heuchera pubescens var. brachyandra
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Shaded circumneutral rock outcroppings, ledges, and rocky cuts
|elevation=100-1400 m
|distribution=Md.;N.C.;Pa.;S.C.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Heuchera
|species=Heuchera pubescens
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