Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Micranthes tenuis (Wahlenb.) Small sect. Dermasea |
Synonyms | Saxifraga pauciflora Sternb. |
Saxifraga sochondensis Maximova | |
Saxifraga tenuis (Wahlenb.) Harry Sm. ex Lindm. | |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
Description | leaves ovate to oval, obtuse or rounded, crenate, ciliate, abruptly tapered to petiolate base, cymules few flowered, producing terminal corymbose cyme |
Size | 5-12cm |
Color | white, pinkish |
Bloom | spring, early summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft, fl. stem erect |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division after flowering; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Fřroyar , Iceland , Norway , Svalbard , Sweden ) Eastern Europe (North European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Kamchatka , Magadan ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , Québec) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | SAXIFRAGACEAE
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