Also known as Wood Saxifrage | ||
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General
Description:
Herbaceous perennial arising from short stout rhizomes forming clumps; the 1.5-4
dm tall pubescent, purplish-glandular flowering stems are succulent and often
brittle.
Distribution:
Southern Alaska southward to northwestern California and central Sierra Nevada
from the Cascade mountains to the Pacific Coast eastward through British Columbia
to northwest Montana southwestward through cental Idaho and northeastern Oregon.
Habitat:
Merten’s Saxifrage grows at lowland elevations up to montane communities.
It is usually found in moist places such as stream banks.
Other:
There is much variability within this species, some having some flowers replaced
by pink bulblets and others having only flowers with no bulblets.