Saxifraga cernua (Nodding Saxifrage)

Family

SAXIFRAGACEAE

Scientific Name with Author

Saxifraga cernua - L.

Synonyms

SAXIFRAGA CERNUA L. VAR. EXILIOIDES; SAXIFRAGA BULBIFERA; SAXAFRAGA SIMULATA

Common Name

Nodding Saxifrage

Agency Status
USFWS	State of NM	USFS	BLM	Navajo Nation	State Rank	Global Rank	R-E-D Code	NMRPTC Status	Strategy Status
					S2?	G5		D

Distribution

This species is found throughout the Boreal Arctic and extends south in Alpine regions western North America from Alaska to New Mexico. It also occurs disjunctly in the Alpine of Scotland, Japan, the Himalaya/Tien-Shan/Altai east to China, and the Alps/Carpathians, rare in Burma, etc.

Habitat

This species rarely produces seed, and tends to occur in mono-clonal populations reproducing by production of bulbils in place of fruit. Common in snow-melt runoff area in the Southern Rockies. Known to hybridize with S. rivularis L.

Important Literature

Kearney, T.H. and R.H. Peebles. 1951. Arizona Flora. University of California Press, Berkeley.

Hickman, J.C. (Editor). 1993. The Jepson Manual, Higher Plants of California, University of California Press

Weber, W.A. 1990. Colorado Flora, Eastern Slope, University of Colorado Press.

Shreve F. and I.L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert, Stanford University Press.

Webb, D.A. and R.J. Gornall. 1989. Saxifrages, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, USA

Webb, D.A. and R.J.Gornall. 1989. Saxifrages of Europe, Chiristopher Helm Publishers Ltd., Imperial House, Bromley, Kent, Great Britain.

Weber, W.A. 1987. Colorado Flora, Western Slope, University of Colorado Press.

Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, S. Goodrich, and L. Higgins (Editors). 1987. A Utah Flora, Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs #9, Brigham Young University.

Wooton, E.O. and P.C. Standley. 1915. Flora of New Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 19, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., Washington D.C. Jan. 24, 1998

Information Compiled By

David J. Ferguson

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