English: Cherler's Saxifrage.
Clades:
Saxifragoideae;
Saxifragales;
Saxifragidae;
Malvanae;
Angiospermae;
Plants;
Kingdoms.
Region: China, Japan, Asia, Kamchatka, Siberia; USA, Alaska.
Habitat: forests, woodlands, along streams; altitude 0 to 800 m.
Use: ornamental, in landscaping; to make a calming tea.
BotanyHerb; perennial; 30 cm tall; loosely mat-forming via stolons.
Stem: rhizomatous, with caudex.
Leaves: green, turn yellow in the fall; cauline (crowded proximally); petiole absent; blade spatulate, unlobed, 2 to 7 mm; leathery; margins entire; densely glandular-ciliate; apex rounded or obtuse; not or short-mucronate; surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences: 3–6-flowered cymes; 2 to 7 cm; pink- to purple-tipped stipitate-glandular; bracts sessile.
Flowers: small; white; star-shaped; sepals erect to ascending, ovate to oblong, margins eciliate or glandular-ciliate, surfaces glabrous; petals 5, white to cream, yellow-spotted, sometimes sparsely red-spotted proximally, elliptic to obovate, 3 to 4 mm, longer than sepals; ovary superior; bloom in the summer
Seeds: small; round; seedlings are small and green.
Propagation: from seed or division.
Chromosomes: 2n = 26.