Saxifraga mixta
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Saxifraga mixta, Lapeyr. The whole plant glandular-pilose, densely cespitose, 2-3 in. high, with subwoody columnar caudicles which are densely imbricate with persistent old lvs.: fl.-sts. erect: lvs. mostly light green, soft and more or less strongly nerved, those of the caudicles and shoots cuneate, borne on a large petiole which equals the blade in length, 3-lobed, the lobes horizontally spreading, obtuse or at other times the lobes 3-lobed, the lobules linear, obtuse; cauline lvs. obovate-cuneate, 3-lobed; bracts oblong, obtuse: infl. corymbose-paniculate: fls. milk-white, not uncommonly purple-nerved; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse; petals round-ovate, 3 times as long as the calyx-lobes. June-Aug. Pyrenees.—Said to be an attractive little plant with a good habit, but the species proper appears not to have been cult. Var. Iratiana, Engl. (S. Iratiana, F. Schultz). About 2 in. high, differing from the type in the deep green, broadly obovate-cuneate lvs. which are 5-9-divided, the lobes being linear, short, and obtuse; in the few-fld., narrow panicle and also in having the white fls. veined with purple. May-July. Pyrenees.—The variety is more common in cult. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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