An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 I. Micranthes nivalis (L.) Small. Clustered Alpine Saxifrage. Fig. 2156. 136. 1905- Seldom over 6' high. Scape viscid, naked, or bracted at the base of the capitate sometimes branched inflorescence; leaves ovate or oval, narrowed into a margined petiole, thick; flowers white, 3'-S' broad, in a compact cluster; calyx
An illustrated flora of the An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 I. Micranthes nivalis (L.) Small. Clustered Alpine Saxifrage. Fig. 2156. 136. 1905- Seldom over 6' high. Scape viscid, naked, or bracted at the base of the capitate sometimes branched inflorescence; leaves ovate or oval, narrowed into a margined petiole, thick; flowers white, 3'-S' broad, in a compact cluster; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, spreading, obtuse, about one- half the length of the oblong or oblong-ovate petals; ovary half-inferior; follicles deep purple, divergent. Labrador and arctic America, south in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona. Also in northern and alpine Europe and Siberia. Summer. Said to flower beneath the snow. 2. Micranthes texana (Buckl.) Small. Texan Saxifrage. Fig. 2157. Saxifraga Buckl. Proc. .\cad. Phila. 1861 : 455- 1862. Micranthes texana Small. Fl. SE. U. S. 501. 1903. Scape sparingly pubescent up to the inflorescence, 2-7' high. Leaves ovate to obovate, narrowed into broad petioles, entire or shallowly toothed, i'-2S' long; inflorescence with the branches ending in congested cymules; flowers white, regular, 2'-3' broad; lobes erect, broadly oblong to ovate, somewhat shorter than the suborbicular or obovate petals; follicles erect or nearly so. On hillsides or in sandv barrens, Missouri and March-April. 3. Micranthes virginiensis (Michx.) Small. Early Saxifrage. Fig. 2158.
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