Saxifraga chrysantha (Golden Saxifrage)

Family

SAXIFRAGACEAE

Scientific Name with Author

Saxifraga chrysantha - Gray

Synonyms

HIRCULUS SERPYLLIFOLIUS SSP. CHRYSANTHUS; SAXIFRAGA SERPYLLIFOLIA PURSH SSP. CHRYSANTHA; SAXIFRAGA SERPYLLIFOLIA PURSH VAR. CHRYSANTHA

Common Name

Golden Saxifrage

Agency Status
USFWS	State of NM	USFS	BLM	Navajo Nation	State Rank	Global Rank	R-E-D Code	NMRPTC Status	Strategy Status
					S2?	G4		D

Distribution

This common species occurs in the Alpine of the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Northern New Mexico, and (?)Southern Montana. I have observed it to be abundant on Santa Fe Baldy and Lake Peak in New Mexico. Opinions will always vary as to whether this is a variety or good species. Typical S. serpyphylla occurs in Arctic Siberia, Alpine Japan, and the Alpine of Alaska, the Yukon, and British Columbia. An insignificant variant with purple, rather than yellow, flowers has been named var. purpurea Hulten.

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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