View source for Chrysosplenium americanum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chrysosplenium americanum
|accepted_authority=Schweinitz ex Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 242. 1832 ,
}}
|common_names=American golden-saxifrage;water-mat or;carpet;dorine d’Amérique
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Chrysosplenium;Chrysosplenium americanum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chrysosplenium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chrysosplenium americanum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 71
|treatment_page=page 72
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stolons </b>white or tan, 0.3–1 mm diam., glabrous. <b>Flowering</b> stems repent, decumbent, or ascending, branching in distal 1/4–1/2, 4–30 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, sometimes alternate distally, membranous. <b>Stolon</b> leaves: petiole 1–4 mm, glabrous; blade ovate to depressed-ovate, round, or flabellate, 2.5–15 × 2–10(–20) mm, base attenuate to cordate, margins subentire or 5–7(–9)-crenate or -crenulate, not purple-spotted, glabrous, surfaces glabrous abaxially and adaxially. <b>Cauline</b> leaves 4–9; petiole absent or 0.1–4 mm, glabrous; blade ovate to depressed-ovate, round, or flabellate, 2.5–15 × 2–10(–20) mm, base attenuate to cordate, margins 5–7(–9)-crenate or -crenulate, glabrous, surfaces glabrous abaxially and adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary solitary flowers or 2–10-flowered, open cymes; bracts green, not purple-spotted, foliaceous, ovate to flabellate, 2–7 × 2–7 mm, margins subentire or 5–7-crenate or -crenulate. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or 0.1–0.8 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium green, not purple-spotted, turbinate, 0.9–1.8 × 1.4–2.6 mm, glabrous; sepals spreading to erect, green, greenish yellow, or greenish red, not purple-spotted or purplish brown-spotted distally, broadly triangular or broadly ovate to nearly round, 1.3–1.8 × 0.9–1.6 mm, apex obtuse to rounded; nectary disc conspicuous, green or purple, 8-lobed; stamens 4–8, 0.5–0.9 mm; anthers purple, red, or orange, 0.2–0.3 × 0.4–0.5 mm; styles 0.2–0.6 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 6–16, dark brown, spheroid to ovoid, (0.5–)0.6–0.8 mm, puberulent. <b>2n</b> = 18, 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Marshy ground, streamsides, seeps, springs, swampy woods
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Chrysosplenium americanum
|author=
|authority=Schweinitz ex Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Marshy ground, streamsides, seeps, springs, swampy woods
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Chrysosplenium
|species=Chrysosplenium americanum
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