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Micranthes careyana (A. Gray) Small. Section: Micranthes. Carey Saxifrage. Phen: May-Jun. Hab: Moist rock outcrops and cliffs, rocks along seeps or brooks, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop. Dist: A Southern Appalachian endemic: (s. WV?), e. TN and nw. NC south to sw. NC, ne. GA, and se. TN.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: Lanning (2009) and Lanning & Mathews (2019) clarified the taxonomy of the M. careyana / caroliniana complex through molecular and morphological study.

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA8, K3, K4, S, S13, Tn, Va, Brouillet & Gornall (2007), Lanning & Mathews (2019), Tkach, Röser, & Hoffmann (2015); = Saxifraga careyana A.Gray – C, F, G, GW2, K1, RAB, W

Links to other floras: = Micranthes careyana - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC

Heliophily ⓘ: 1

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect, rosette-forming perennial of moist rock outcrops and cliffs, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop.

Stems: Flowering stems branched above in inflorescence, furry with glandular hairs.

Leaves: Leaves basal, on winged petioles, oval to oblong oval with wedge-shaped base, to 5 in. long, coarsely toothed, fleshy-thick, green above and purple mottled beneath, furry on both surfaces or only beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a wide-branching, glandular-furry panicle with some leaf-like bracts; tiny; white; consisting of 5 minute petals, 5 minute and partially fused sepals and 10 stamens.

Fruits: Fruit a 2-parted, oval capsule, with the lobes partially fused and partially separate-spreading apart.

Comments: A southern Appalachian endemic.

Height: 4-15 in.

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description: Erect, rosette-forming perennial of moist rock outcrops and cliffs, often under overhangs, often in moist soil at the base of a vertical or overhanging rock outcrop.

stems: Flowering stems branched above in inflorescence, furry with glandular hairs.

leaves: Leaves basal, on winged petioles, oval to oblong oval with wedge-shaped base, to 5 in. long, coarsely toothed, fleshy-thick, green above and purple mottled beneath, furry on both surfaces or only beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a wide-branching, glandular-furry panicle with some leaf-like bracts; tiny; white; consisting of 5 minute petals, 5 minute and partially fused sepals and 10 stamens.

fruits: Fruit a 2-parted, oval capsule, with the lobes partially fused and partially separate-spreading apart.

comments: A southern Appalachian endemic.

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