Saxifraga aleutica Hultén:
United States (North America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Syntype for Saxifraga aleutica Hult?n
Catalog Number: US 156145
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. M. Turner
Locality: Atkha Isld., Atka Island, Alaska, United States, North America

Syntype for Saxifraga aleutica Hult?n
Catalog Number: US 1631561
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): O. E. G. Hult?n
Year Collected: 1932
Locality: Rat Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America

Comments: Windswept ridges and summits, in fine screes and talus to at least 610 m elevation. In prostrate shrub-herbaceous tundra.

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: N2 - Imperiled

Rounded Global Status Rank: G2 - Imperiled

Reasons: Endemic to the central and western Aleutian Islands, Alaska, where it is known from high mountain peaks.

Comments: A very distinctive endemic species of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.