View source for Saxifraga tricuspidata

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|accepted_name=Saxifraga tricuspidata
|accepted_authority=Rotbøll
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Skr. Kiøbenhavnske Selsk. Laerd. Elsk.
|place=10: 446. 1770 (as 3cuspidata) ,
}}
|common_names=Prickly saxifrage;saxifrage à trois dents
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Saxifraga;Saxifraga tricuspidata
|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 tricuspidata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 135, 140
|treatment_page=page 142
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>loosely mat-forming, (stems trailing), not stoloniferous, with elongate caudex or rhizomatous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, (marcescent, crowded proximally); petiole absent; blade (often reddish), linear to cuneate, 1–3-lobed or -toothed apically (distal cauline unlobed), rarely all unlobed, (lobes long spinose-mucronate), 5–20 mm, leathery, margins entire, softly glandular-ciliate, (nonsecreting hydathodes present adaxially), apex acute, long spinose-mucronate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–10-flowered cymes, 4–10(–24) cm, white to sparsely pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect to ascending, (sometimes purplish), triangular-ovate, margins ± glandular-ciliate, surfaces white to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; petals white to cream, proximally to distally yellow-, orange-, and red-spotted, elliptic to ovate, 4–7 mm, much longer than sepals; ovary superior. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Open sandy, gravelly, or rocky sites, forest openings, grassy slopes, rocky ridges, stony tundra
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Mich.
|discussion=<p>The rare, entire-leaved form of <i>Saxifraga tricuspidata</i> can be confused with <i>S. bronchialis</i>; it has glandular-ciliate margins instead of stiffly hooked-ciliate ones.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Saxifraga tricuspidata
|authority=Rotbøll
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–summer.
|habitat=Open sandy, gravelly, or rocky sites, forest openings, grassy slopes, rocky ridges, stony tundra
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Mich.
|reference=None
|publication title=Skr. Kiøbenhavnske Selsk. Laerd. Elsk.
|publication year=
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Saxifraga
|species=Saxifraga tricuspidata
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