Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Ozomelis trifida (Graham) Rydb. |
Bibliography | N. Amer. Fl. [N.L.Britton & al., eds.] 22: 95 (1905) |
Native Range | Alaska to w. USA |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Altitude | 300-2000m |
Description | leaves cordate to cordate-ovate, 2-6cm wide, crenate, raceme compact, 10-20-flowered, petals broadly rhombic, entire to trifid |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | white, rose, purple |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-16°C division in early spring |
Synonyms | Lithophragma nudicaulis Nutt. Mitella anomala Piper Mitella micrantha Piper Mitella pacifica (Rydb.) Fedde Mitella trifida Graham Mitella trifida var. integripetala Rosend. Mitella trifida f. micrantha Rosend. Mitella trifida var. violacea (Rydb.) Rosend. Mitella violacea Rydb. Mitellopsis hookeri Meisn. Mitellopsis trifida (Graham) Walp. Ozomelis anomala (Piper) Rydb. Ozomellis micrantha (Piper) Rydb. Ozomelis pacifica Rydb. Ozomelis varians Raf. Ozomelis violacea (Rydb.) Rydb. |
Territory | 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska) 71 Western Canada (ABT Alberta, BRC British Columbia) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (CAL California) |