Chrysosplenium tetrandrum

Golden Saxifrage

Duck Mountain Provincial Park
23-June-2002

Chrysosplenium Characteristics

herbs

low plants

leaves and flowers clustered at tip of stem

leaves reniform, crenate

more than one flower

petals missing

hypanthium shallow, yellowish within

stamens 4-8, mostly 6-7

no sterile stamens

capsule obcordate, 2-lobed, flattened

 

Saxifragaceae Characteristics

herbs

land plants

plants not parasitic on trees; rooted in soil or water

plants with more than one pair of leaves

leaves alternate; lower ones sometimes opposite

leaves without stipules

leaves orbicular or reniform

flowers with only one floral ring, with sepals but not petals

4 sepals

stamens and pistils in each flower

ovary and fruit partly inferior

ovary or its locules with many ovules

fruit dry when ripe