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|accepted_name=Micranthes virginiensis
|accepted_authority=(Michaux) Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|place=501. 1903 ,
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|common_names=Virginia or early saxifrage;saxifrage de Virginie
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga virginiensis
|authority=Michaux
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Micranthes;Micranthes virginiensis
|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 virginiensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 54
|treatment_page=page 61
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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, 1–9 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 2–8 cm, ± fleshy, base attenuate, margins irregularly crenate to serrate, ciliate, surfaces sparsely to ± densely stipitate-glandular and tangled, reddish brown-hairy, adaxially glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 30+-flowered, (flowers sometimes secund), very open, lax, ± flat-topped thyrses, 6–50 cm, proximally hairy, distally densely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to ascending (even in fruit), ovate to triangular; petals white, not spotted, broadly oblong to elliptic, not or rarely slightly clawed, 3–6 mm, 2+ times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary ± superior, (to 1/3 adnate hypanthium). <b>Capsules</b> green to purplish, folliclelike. <b>2n</b> = 20 (+ 0–6 supernumeraries), 38.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, cliffs and shaded rock outcrops, stream banks, wooded slopes
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Also reported for Micranthes virginiensis is 2n = 28; D. E. Soltis (1983) documented zero to six supernumerary chromosomes in this species and speculated that this report may have included eight supernumeraries.</p>
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name=Micranthes virginiensis
|author=
|authority=(Michaux) Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Saxifraga virginiensis
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Rocky hillsides, cliffs and shaded rock outcrops, stream banks, wooded slopes
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=Man.;N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;D.C.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;La.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_109.xml
|genus=Micranthes
|species=Micranthes virginiensis
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