Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leptasea austromontana (Wiegand) Small
Saxifraga bronchialis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 310. 1814. Not S. bronchialis Iv. 1753. Saxifraga austromontana Wiegand, Bull. Torrey Club 27 : 389. 1900. Saxifraga cognata E. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 30 : 118. 1900.
Leaves of the caudices 7-14 mm. long, or rarely somewhat shorter, parchment-like, crowded, but more or less spreading, the blades narrowly lanceolate to subulate, slenderly spine-tipped, ciliate; flower-stalks 8-15 cm. tall, glabrate or finely glandular-pubescent, bearing several leayes which are smaller than those of the caudices ; sepals ovate, sometimes rather narrowly so, 1.5-3 mm. long, wholly glabrous or sparingly ciliate, obtuse; petals white, often yellow-spotted, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5-6.5 mm. long, or rarely shorter, clawless; filaments subulate; follicles 5.5-9 mm. long.
Type locality : Cascade Mountains of Washington.
Distribution : Alberta to British Columbia, Washington, Montana and New Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
