Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Saxifraga setigera Pursh sect. Ciliatae |
Bibliography | Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 312 (1813) |
Native Range | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-4000m |
Description | stoloniferous, pubescent, leaves in rosettes, spathulate, acute, scabrously ciliate, flowers few in cyme, sepals green narrowly elliptic, glandular, petals obovate, 5-7mm |
Size | 5-15cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
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Type | subshrub |
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 cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Saxifraga flagellaris ssp. setigera (Pursh) Tolm. Saxifraga sobolifera Adams |
Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (SVA Svalbard) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 37 Mongolia 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) |