Search Field Guide
Advanced Search
MT Gov Logo
Montana Field Guide

Montana Field Guides

Richardson's Alumroot - Heuchera richardsonii

Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: S4
C-value: 4


Agency Status
USFWS:
USFS:
BLM:


 

External Links






 
General Description
Stems 20–70 cm. Leaf blades orbicular to reniforn, 2–9 cm wide, shallowly 5- to 7-lobed, crenate, nearly glabrous above, sparsely hairy beneath. Flowers campanulate, irregular; calyx 8–12 mm long, green to pinkish; the lobes 3–4 mm long, erect, yellow to purple; petals 5–7 mm long, purplish; stamens ca. as long as the sepals. Capsules 6–8 mm long. Grasslands, woodlands, open forest; plains (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range
Montana Range Range Descriptions

Native
 


Range Comments
AB to MI south to CO, NE and MO (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 25

(Click on the following maps and charts to see full sized version) Map Help and Descriptions
Relative Density

Recency

 

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)



Habitat

Ecology
POLLINATORS
The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap: Bombus pensylvanicus (Colla and Dumesh 2010).

References
  • Literature Cited AboveLegend:   View Online Publication
    • Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
  • Additional ReferencesLegend:   View Online Publication
    Do you know of a citation we're missing?
    • Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
  • Web Search Engines for Articles on "Richardson's Alumroot"
Login Logout
Citation for data on this website:
Richardson's Alumroot — Heuchera richardsonii.  Montana Field Guide.  .  Retrieved on , from