Saxifraga radiata

Plants in tufts, not stoloniferous, weakly rhizomatous (with bulbils at leaf bases). Leaves basal and cauline (basal ephemeral); petiole flattened, 5–15 mm; blade reniform, 5–7-lobed usually more than halfway to midvein (cauline less-lobed distally), 5–20 mm, thin to slightly fleshy, margins entire, eciliate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous or glabrate to ± long-hairy. Inflorescences 2–5-flowered cymes, 5–18 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts petiolate. Flowers: sepals erect, (sometimes purplish), ovate to lanceolate, margins glandular-ciliate or eciliate, surfaces glabrous; petals white, sometimes with purple veins, not spotted, obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, 7–15 mm, longer than sepals; ovary 1/4–1/3 inferior. 2n = 26, 48, 52.

Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Snow-bed meadows, stream banks
Elevation: 0-1500 m

N.W.T., Yukon, Alaska, Asia (Siberia).

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Lower Taxa