View source for Micranthes nidifica

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|accepted_name=Micranthes nidifica
|accepted_authority=(Greene) Small in N. L. Britton et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|place=22: 134. 1905,
}}
|common_names=Swamp saxifrage
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Saxifraga nidifica
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|publication_title=Erythea
|publication_place=1: 222. 1893
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Micranthes plantaginea
|authority=(Small) Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga columbiana
|authority=Piper
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga integrifolia var. columbiana
|authority=(Piper) C. L. Hitchcock
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga integrifolia var. leptopetala
|authority=(Suksdorf) Engler & Irmscher
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga montana
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga plantaginea
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Micranthes;Micranthes nidifica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Micranthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Micranthes nidifica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 52, 69
|treatment_page=page 68
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>solitary or in clumps, with bulbils on caudices. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole flattened, 1.5–5.5 cm; blade ± ovate to elliptic, 3–6(–7.5) cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins entire or minutely denticulate, ciliate, surfaces glabrate to sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 30+-flowered, lax, cylindric thyrses with 3–10, ± compact cymules, 10–30 cm, ± densely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals strongly reflexed, broadly ovate to deltate; petals white to greenish white, not spotted, usually elliptic to obovate, clawed, 1–1.9 mm, equaling or shorter than sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils connate to 1/2 their lengths; ovary 1/2+ inferior. <b>Capsules</b> green or reddish purple, folliclelike. <b>2n</b> = 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Open meadows, shrub-lands, gravelly slopes, edges of and open pine forests
|elevation=100-2600 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Micranthes nidifica</i> is polymorphic and merges to some extent with <i>M. fragosa</i> in limited areas of southern Washington and northern Oregon.</p>
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name=Micranthes nidifica
|authority=(Greene) Small in N. L. Britton et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Micranthes plantaginea;Saxifraga columbiana;Saxifraga integrifolia var. columbiana;Saxifraga integrifolia var. leptopetala;Saxifraga montana;Saxifraga plantaginea
|basionyms=Saxifraga nidifica
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Open meadows, shrub-lands, gravelly slopes, edges of and open pine forests
|elevation=100-2600 m
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Micranthes
|species=Micranthes nidifica
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