Saxifraga cernua L.

SAXIFRAGACEAE

- Saxifrage family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Saxifraga cernua L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 403 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Nodding saxifrage

Italian name: Sassifraga incurvata

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Saxifraga cernua L. var. exilioides Polunin

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Saxifraga cernua L. var. exilioides Polunin

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Rosales
Family: Saxifragaceae
Genus: Saxifraga
Species:

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Saxifraga cernua
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Saxifraga cernua
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 222.

Saxifraga cernua
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Belluno, Nevegal, Orto Botanico delle Alpi Orientali. , BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Saxifraga cernua
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Saxifraga cernua
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Saxifraga cernua
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CO, ID, MN, MT, NH, NM, NV, SD, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NT, NU, ON, QC, YT), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Saxifraga cernua L.
Map for Saxifraga cernua L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Saxifraga cernua L. var. exilioides Polunin [94]
2) Saxifraga cespitosa L. ssp. eucaespitosa Engl. & Irmsch., orth. var. [91]
3) Saxifraga cespitosa L. ssp. monticola (Small) A.E. Porsild, orth. var. [137]
4) Saxifraga cespitosa L. ssp. subgemmifera Engl. & Irmsch., orth. var. [231]
5) Saxifraga cespitosa L. var. lemmonii Engl. & Irmsch., orth. var. [98]
6) Saxifraga crenatifolia (Small) Fedde [176]
7) Saxifraga flagellaris Willd. ex Sternb. ssp. platysepala (Trautv.) A.E. Porsild [162]
8) Saxifraga gracillima A.M. Johnson [133]
9) Saxifraga integrifolia Hook. var. columbiana (Piper) C.L. Hitchc. [146]
10) Saxifraga nivalis L. [532]

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