Tufted Saxifrage - Saxifraga cespitosa
Other Names:
Saxifraga caespitosa
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4
C-value:
6
Agency Status
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Forming small cushions from a branched caudex clothed in old leaves. Stems ascending, glandular, 1–10 cm. Leaves cauline and mostly basal, glabrous to pubescent, narrowly oblong, 3–15 mm long, 3-lobed with an indistinct petiole. Inflorescence a few-flowered, glandular cyme. Flowers: calyx campanulate with lobes 1–2 mm long; hypanthium ca. 2 mm long; petals white or rarely purple, oblanceolate, 3–5 mm long; ovary inferior. Capsule 4–7 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Dry to moist sparsely vegetated soil of rock slides, boulder fields, crevices, turf; alpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).