Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Saxifraga platysepala (Trautv.) Tolm. sect. Ciliatae |
Bibliography | Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 19: 172 (1959) |
Native Range | Subarctic |
Primary Biome | Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-1500m |
Description | stoloniferous, leaves in rosettes, sessile, lanceolate or oblong, sessile, entire, carnose, glandular-ciliate, inflorescence 1-4cm, petals broadly obovate, 5-7mm |
Size | 2-7cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
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 in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Hirculus platysepalus (Trautv.) W.A.Weber Saxifraga flagellaris var. platysepala Trautv. Saxifraga flagellaris ssp. platysepala (Trautv.) A.E.Porsild |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (SVA Svalbard) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories) |