Micranthes gormanii

Plants in groups or, sometimes, almost mat-forming, rhizomatous. Leaves basal; petiole flattened, 5–7.5 cm; blade ovate to elliptic, 3–4 cm, fleshy, base attenuate, margins shallowly crenate-serrate, sparsely ciliate, surfaces tangled, reddish brown-hairy. Inflorescences (10–) 30+-flowered, open, lax, strongly divaricately branched, conic thyrses, 8–30 cm, purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; (bracts glabrous, proximal marginally ciliate). Flowers: sepals ascending, ovate to oblong, (margins eciliate, surfaces glabrous); petals white, not spotted, obovate to ± round, clawed, ca. 2 mm, ca. 1.5 times as long as sepals; filaments linear, flattened; pistils distinct almost to base; ovary nearly 1/3 inferior, (to 1/3 adnate to hypanthium). Capsules greenish to reddish purple, folliclelike. 2n = 20, 38, 40.

Phenology: Flowering spring.
Habitat: Wet, rocky ledges and slopes
Elevation: 0-1000 m

Oreg., Wash.

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