Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Antiphylla oppositifolia (ly.) Fourr. Ann. Soc. I^inn. I,yons
II. 16: 386. 1868.
Saxifraga oppositifolia L. Sp. PI. 402. 1753. Antiphylla caerulea Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 43. 1821. Antiphylla spaiulata arctica Haw. Saxifr. Hnum. 45. 1821. Saxifraga oppositifolia albifiora Lange, Consp. Fl. Groenl. 66. 1880.
Plants in dense mats ; leaves densely imbricated except on the flower-stalks and sometimes on elongated stems, 4-ranked, the blades obovate to spatulate, 3-5 mm. long, ciliate, keeled; flower-stalks 1-3 cm. long or sometimes shorter when young, leafy ; hypanthium somewhat ribbed; sepals oblong to ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, ciliate all around; petals lilac or purple, elliptic to oval, 8-9 mm. long, or perhaps somewhat shorter in diminutive specimens, each narrowed into a stout claw-like base ; filaments subulate or subulatefill form ; follicles 8-9 mm. long, the style-tips fully 2 mm. long.
Type locality : Lapland.
Distribution : On rocks and in stony soil, alpine and circumboreal, extending southward to the high mountains of northern Vermont and British Columbia.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
