Heuchera villosa Michx.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Saxifragaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants 2–8 dm; scape with a few small, scale-like bracts; lvs angular, with triangular, acute lobes and teeth, rough-hairy on both sides, or mainly on the lower side or only on the veins beneath; petioles and stems ± spreading-villous with multicellular trichomes; infl congested at anthesis, with pedicels to 3 mm, later more open; fls regular, 1.5–3(–3.5) mm at anthesis (measured to the sep-tips); hypanthium glandular-villous, the free part to 0.5 mm, shorter than the adnate part, white or pink, usually with green-tipped sep; pet white to pink, linear, entire, often spirally coiled, much exceeding the sep; stamens exserted; seeds sharply muricate; 2n=14. Moist, shaded ledges and cliffs, especially on acid rocks; irregularly distributed from the mts. of Va. and W.Va. to S.C. and Tenn., w. to s. Ind., Mo., and Ark.; rare in w. Pa. and w. N.Y. Late June–Sept. Ours is var. villosa. Var. arkansana (Rydb.) E. B. Sm. is Ozarkian.
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Common Names
maple-leaved alum-root