View source for Saxifraga oppositifolia

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|accepted_name=Saxifraga oppositifolia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 402. 1753 ,
}}
|common_names=Purple or purple mountain saxifrage;saxifrage à feuilles opposées
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Saxifraga;Saxifraga oppositifolia
|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 oppositifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 132, 133, 135
|treatment_page=page 136
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>mat- or cushion-forming (with trailing, ± woody stems), not stoloniferous, rhizomatous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline (marcescent, crowded), opposite (rarely alternate); petiole absent; blade oblong to ± broadly obovate, unlobed, 2–5 mm, leathery, margins entire, bristly-ciliate, with 1(–3) lime-secreting hydathodes (in pit, secretion obvious), apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, ebracteate, 1–5 cm, glabrate or sparsely purple-tipped stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, ovate, margins stiffly ciliate or not, surfaces hairy, stipitate-glandular, or glabrous; petals purple to pink, rarely white, often drying violet, not spotted, obovate to elliptic, (2–)5–12(–20) mm, longer than sepals; ovary ± superior. <b>Capsules</b> ± folliclelike.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia;arctic and alpine.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 7 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepal margins bristly-ciliate
|[[Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. oppositifolia|Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. oppositifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepal margins glandular-ciliate
|[[Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. smalliana|Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. smalliana]]
|}
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name=Saxifraga oppositifolia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;N.Y.;Oreg.;Vt.;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia;arctic and alpine.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_264.xml
|genus=Saxifraga
|species=Saxifraga oppositifolia
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