Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Saxifraga aizoides L. sect. Porphyrion |
Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 403 (1753) |
Native Range | Subarctic America to n. USA, Subarctic & Subalpine Europe to w. Siberia |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | scree and moraines |
Description | stem leaves sessile, linear to narrowly oblong, fleshy, 3-22mm, entire, spinulose-ciliate, glabrous, flowers 2-15 in cyme, petals elliptic 3-7mm long |
Size | 5-30cm |
Color | yellow, orange |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | ind |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Evaiezoa aizoides (L.) Raf. Leptasea aizoides (L.) Raf. Leptasea aizoides f. crocea (Gaudin) Moldenke Leptasea vanbruntiae (Small) Small Muscaria crocea (Gaudin) Haw. Saxifraga aizoidea St.-Lag. Saxifraga aizoides var. aurantia Hartm. Saxifraga aizoides f. aurantiaca Sternb. Saxifraga aizoides subf. bruntiae Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga aizoides var. euaizoides Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga aizoides var. crocea Gaudin Saxifraga aizodes f. flava Engl. & Irmsch. Saxifraga aizoides f. pallida Sternb. Saxifraga aizoidoides Miégev. Saxifraga alpina Salisb. Saxifraga atrorubens Bertol Saxifraga autumnalis Jacq. Saxifraga crocea Gaudin Saxifraga vanbruntiae Small |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (WSB West Siberia) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NFL Newfoundland, NSC Nova Scotia, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MIC Michigan, NWY New York, VER Vermont) |