Saxifraga flagellaris ssp. Crandallii (Crandall's Saxifrage)

Family

SAXIFRAGACEAE

Scientific Name with Author

Saxifraga flagellaris ssp. crandallii - (Gandog.) Hulten

Synonyms

HIRCULUS PLATYSEPALUS SSP. CRANDALLII; LEPTASEA FLAGELLARIS; SAXIFRAGA CRANDALLII; SAXIFRAGA FLAGELLARIS VAR. CRANDALLII

Common Name

Crandall's Saxifrage

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

Distribution

This is a circumboreal species, occurring in both Arctic and mountain Alpine habitats. It occurs in all boreal Arctic regions and as a disjunct in the Rockies. Himalayas, Caucasus, Tien-Shan, Pamirs, Altai, etc. In the circumboreal Arctic is ssp. platysepala (Trautvetter) Porsild [tetraploid]. The ssp. flagellaris [diploid] is from the Caucasus. The ssp. setigera (Pursh) Tolmatchev (= var. stenosepala) [diploid] is found is Siberia, Alaska, the Yukon, to Southern British Columbia. Our subspecies [tetraploid] occurs in the Rockies from Montana (?Alberta) to Northern New Mexico and Arizona. I have seen it, but not abundantly on Santa Fe Baldy and Lake Peak.

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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