View source for Saxifraga mertensiana

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|accepted_name=Saxifraga mertensiana
|accepted_authority=Bongard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér.
|place=6, Sci. Math. 2: 141. 1832 ,
}}
|common_names=Merten’s or wood or woodland saxifrage
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Saxifraga mertensiana var. eastwoodiae
|authority=(Small) Engler & Irmscher
}}
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Saxifraga;Saxifraga mertensiana
|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 mertensiana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 133, 134, 135
|treatment_page=page 146
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>solitary or in clumps, not stoloniferous, with caudex or short-rhizomatous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, (basal persistent, cauline ± inconspicuous); petiole rounded, 2–20 mm; blade round to reniform, irregularly shallowly lobed, 20–80(–100) mm, thin, margins serrate, stipitate glandular-ciliate, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces sparsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 30+-flowered, open, much-branched thyrses, usually some or all flowers replaced by bulbils (sometimes bulbils absent), 15–40 cm, dark purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts (± inconspicuous), petiolate or sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals reflexed (at least in fruit), ovate to elliptic, margins eciliate, surfaces sparsely stipitate-glandular or glabrous; petals white, not spotted, narrowly ovate to elliptic, (3–)4–6 mm, longer than sepals; filaments strongly club-shaped; ovary superior. <b>2n</b> = 36, ca. 48, 50.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet stream banks, mossy cliffs and slopes, waterfall spray zones
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Plants of Saxifraga mertensiana bear bulbils in the axils of basal leaves.</p>
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name=Saxifraga mertensiana
|author=
|authority=Bongard
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Saxifraga mertensiana var. eastwoodiae
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Moist to wet stream banks, mossy cliffs and slopes, waterfall spray zones
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Alaska;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_297.xml
|genus=Saxifraga
|species=Saxifraga mertensiana
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