Saturday, July 14, 2012

Yellow Spotted Saxifrage


 Yellow Spotted Saxifrage—Saxifrage bronchialis is about 20cm high and a tiny flower that is a family of saxifrage. The word “Saxifrage” means stone-breaker. It is often confused with Prickly Saxifrage that has cream-colored petals and blooms earlier (late May to mid-June). It lives in rocky alpine ridges though most of Alaska except Southeast and the Yukon River drainage. It blooms in July. The spoon-shaped leaves are very small and hairy, and closely crowded together, so it looks like a moss. The flower is about 1 cm across, has 5 white to light yellow petals with obvious red or purple dots above the middle and yellow-orange spots near the base. It is recorded that the Siberian Natives used it for respiratory problems.

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