English: Mukdenia, Ross's Mukdenia
Family:
SaxifragaceaeRegion: East Asia, China, Korea.
Habitat: wet, humus rich, sour soil; in rocky, mountainous regions; shaded or partially shaded ; well-drained, moist soils.
Uses: ornamental, versatile. in rock gardens, woodland gardens, ground cover; medicinal, in East Asian medicine.
BotanyHerb; perennia; up to 30 cm in height.
Root: rhizomatous root.
Leaves: palmate; deeply lobed; emerge in spring; bright green, turning reddish or bronze in the fall; like maple leaves; up to 12 cm across.
Inflorescence: flower stalks growing from a basal rosette .
Flowers: early-blooming flowers.
Corolla: white or pale pink; star-shaped flowers.
Petals: 5; in loose clusters.
Sepals: 5 small sepals surrounding the flower base.
Stamens: numerous; white filaments; yellow anthers.
Ovary: superior; two fused carpels.
Pollination: bees, other insects.
Fruit: small capsule; numerous seeds.
Seeds: tiny; lightweight, dispersed by wind or water.