View source for Saxifraga serpyllifolia

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|accepted_name=Saxifraga serpyllifolia
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=1: 310. 1813 ,
}}
|common_names=Thyme-leaved saxifrage
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga serpyllifolia var. purpurea
|authority=Hultén
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Saxifraga;Saxifraga serpyllifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saxifraga]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Saxifraga serpyllifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 135, 136
|treatment_page=page 139
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>mat-forming, not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, (cauline 1–4); petiole absent; blade linear (cauline) or oblong to oblanceolate or spatulate, unlobed, 2–8.5 mm, fleshy, margins (recurved), entire, eciliate, apex obtuse, not mucronate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, 2–7 cm, sparsely to densely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to spreading (reflexed in fruit, often purplish), broadly ovate to elliptic, margins eciliate or sometimes sparsely ciliate, surfaces glabrous; petals pale yellow, rarely purple, faded when dried, not spotted, elliptic to obovate, 4–8 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior. <b>2n</b> = 16 (Russia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry sandy areas, cliffs, gravelly ridges, scree, tundra
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=N.W.T.;Nunavut;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Japan;Siberia).
|discussion=<p>The purple-flowered variant of <i>Saxifraga serpyllifolia</i> has been called <i></i>var.<i> purpurea</i>.</p>
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name=Saxifraga serpyllifolia
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Saxifraga serpyllifolia var. purpurea
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Moist to dry sandy areas, cliffs, gravelly ridges, scree, tundra
|elevation=0-2200 m
|distribution=N.W.T.;Nunavut;Yukon;Alaska;Asia (Japan;Siberia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_275.xml
|genus=Saxifraga
|species=Saxifraga serpyllifolia
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