Heuchera pubescens Pursh
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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 3–9 dm; scape with to 5 lf-like bracts; petioles and stems glabrous or glandular-puberulent; lvs round-cordate, conspicuously 5–7-lobed, the teeth broadly rounded to acute, mucronate; bracts of the infl somewhat scarious; fls oblique, 7–11 mm on the upper side, 2/3–3/4 as long on the lower, the free part of the hypanthium 2–6 mm; sep somewhat spreading, rounded, separated by narrow sinuses; pet white to pink or purple, 2.5–5 mm, somewhat inflexed, broadly spatulate, generally fimbriate-margined; stamens and style typically barely exserted, varying to barely included or evidently exserted; 2n=14. Upland woods in the Ridge and Valley geological province, from s. Pa. and w. Md. to Va. and W.Va. May, June.
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Common Names
Appalachian alum-root