Chrysosplenium wrightii
| Chrysosplenium wrightii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Saxifragaceae |
| Genus: | Chrysosplenium |
| Species: | C. wrightii |
| Binomial name | |
| Chrysosplenium wrightii Franch. & Sav. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chrysosplenium alternifolium var. wrightii (Franch. & Sav.) Sutô | |
Chrysosplenium wrightii, or Wright's golden saxifrage, is a plant species native to northwestern North America and northeastern Asia. It grows on tundra and along stream banks at elevations up to 2,300 m (7,550 ft) in British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, and in eastern Siberia. The plant was first described in 1878 as being from Japan. This was based on material collected along the Sea of Okhotsk presumably either Sakhalin Island or one of the Kuril Islands, parts of Japan at the time but now in the Russian Federation.
Two infraspecific taxa have been proposed, both names accepted by World Flora Online:
- Chrysosplenium wrightii subsp. wrightii
- Chrysosplenium wrightii subsp. saxatile (Khokhr.) Vorosch., from Russia
Additionally;
- Chrysosplenium wrightii var. beringanum (Rose) H.Hara, from St. Paul Island in Alaska is now included with the nominate subspecies.
Chrysosplenium wrightii is an herb reproducing by means of stolons running along the surface of the ground. Flowering stalks are up to 16 cm (6.3 in) tall, bearing a cyme of up to 30 flowers. Flowers are yellow, purple, or orange, usually with purple spots.
References
- ↑ NatureServe. "Chrysosplenium wrightii". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia.
- ↑ "Chrysosplenium wrightii Franch. & Sav". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- 1 2 Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Chrysosplenium wrightii". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- ↑ Franchet, Adrien René & Savatier, Paul Amedée Ludovic (1878). Enumeratio Plantarum in Japonia Sponte Crescentium (in Latin). Vol. 2. p. 356.
- ↑ Suto, Tiharu (1935). "「アライトサウ（チシマ猫ノ目サウ）ニツイテ」" [On Chrysosplenium kamtschaticum (Chishima-ne nome-sō)]. Journal of Japanese Botany (in Japanese). 11 (6): 396.
- ↑ "Chrysosplenium wrightii". World Flora Online.
- ↑ Voroschilov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (1991). "Chrysosplenium wrightii". Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii N.s. (in Russian). 96: 133.
- ↑ Khokhrjakov, Andrej Pavlovich (1973). "Chrysosplenium wrightii". Byull. Glavn. Bot. Sada (in Russian). 88: 45.
- ↑ Hara, Hiroshi (1957). "Chrysosplenium wrightii". Journal of the Faculty of Science. Section 3, Botany. 7. University of Tokyo: 63.
- ↑ Rose, Joseph Nelson (1897). "Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Chrysosplenium". Botanical Gazette. 23: 275.
- ↑ Cody, W. J. (1996). Flora of Yukon Territory. Ottawa: NRC Research Press.
- ↑ Welsh, S. L. (1974). Anderson's Flora of Alaska and Adjacent Parts of Canada. Provo: Brigham Young University Press.
- ↑ "Bering Sea Water-carpet, Wright's Golden-saxifrage: Chrysosplenium wrightii (Synonym: Chrysosplenium alternifolium var. wrightii)". science.halleyhosting.com.