Saxifraga pennsylvanica

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Saxifraga pennsylvanica, Linn. (Micranthes pennsylvanica, Haw.). Swamp Saxifrage. Tall and stout, up to 3 ft. or more high, viscid pubescent: rhizome thick: lvs. all basal, sometimes almost 1 ft. long, oblanceolate or oblong-spatulate, attenuate to a short petiole which is half clasping at the base, obtuse, very shortly and also remotely dentate, margin short-ciliate: infl. 4-8-fld. cymes in a large panicle at first clustered, borne on a naked erect scape which is few-striate, shortly pilose, toward the top glandulose-pilose: fls. numerous, small, greenish; calyx-lobes deltoid, spreading, in fr. reflex; petals oblong-linear or linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, a little longer and narrower than the calyx-lobes. June, July. Swamps and low meadows, Maine to Ont. and Minn., south to Va. and Mo. B.B. 2:173; (ed. 2) 2:219.—Recommended as a bog-plant. CH


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