Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Pectiantia pentandra (Hook.) Rydb. |
Bibliography | N. Amer. Fl. [N.L.Britton & al., eds.] 22: 93 (1905) |
Native Range | Alaska to w. USA, South Dakota, New Mexico |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and woods |
Altitude | 1000-3700m |
Description | sometimes stoloniferous, leaves ovate-cordate, 2-7cm wide, double crenate-dentate, flowers in 6-25-flowered raceme, petals 3mm, divided into 8 filiform, lateral segments |
Size | 10-45cm |
Color | greenish |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
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Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, semi-shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-16°C division in early spring |
Synonyms | Drummondia mitelloides DC. Mitella latiflora (Rydb.) Fedde Mitella pentandra Hook. Mitella pentandra f. maxima Rosend. Mitella pentandra f. stolonifera Rosend. Mitellopsis drummondii Meisn. Mitellopsis pentandra (Hook.) Walp. Pectiantia latiflora Rydb. Pectiantia mitelloides Raf. |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (SDA South Dakota) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (CAL California, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |