Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Saxifraga funstonii (Small) Fedde sect. Trachyphyllum |
Bibliography | Just´s Bot. Jahresber. 33(1): 613 (1906) |
Native Range | Siberia to Russian Far East, Aleutian Islands to nw. Canada |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | tundra |
Altitude | 0-2000m |
Description | leaves crowded, linear to oblong-linear, ciliate, mucronate, stem leaves similar, smaller, flowers in cyme, sepals ovate, petals 7-8mm, ovate, yellow variegate |
Size | 5-12cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
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 | Ciliaria funstonii (Small) W.A.Weber Leptasea funstonii Small Saxifraga bronchialis ssp. codyana (Zhmylev) Cody Saxifraga bronchialis ssp. funstonii (Small) Hultén Saxifraga bronchialis var. funstonii (Small) Rosend. Saxifraga bronchialis var. purpureomaculata Hultén Saxifraga codyana Zhmylev Saxifraga firma Litv. ex Losinsk. Saxifraga pseudobronchialis Fisch. Saxifraga spinulosa ssp. funstonii (Small) Vorosch. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, SAK Sakhalin) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) |