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Saxifragaceae
Chrysosplenium

Chrysosplenium americanum Schweinitz ex Hooker. Common name: Golden-saxifrage, Water-mat, Water-carpet. Phenology: Mar-Jun. Habitat: In shaded, rocky, gravelly, and/or mossy seeps and seepage swamps. Distribution: QC west to SK, south to e. VA, w. NC, n. GA, e. TN, and n. IN.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, Can, F, FNA8, G, GW2, K4, Mi, NE, NY, Pa, RAB, S, S13, Tat, Tn, Va, W. Basionym: Chrysosplenium americanum Schwein. ex Hook. 1832

Links to other floras: = Chrysosplenium americanum - FNA8

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
  • Midwest: OBL
  • Northcentral & Northeast: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 3

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Mat-forming, creeping perennial found in shaded, rocky, gravelly or mossy seeps and seepage swamps.

Stems: Stems forking and creeping, with some reddish tint.

Leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, short-petiolate, round to widely oval, to ½ in. long, shallowly lobed or toothed.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers mostly solitary at ends of branches or in upper leaf axils, inconspicuous, greenish-yellow with a ring of 4 or 8 red anthers.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, 2-lobed capsule.

Comments:

Height: 2-12 in.

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description: Mat-forming, creeping perennial found in shaded, rocky, gravelly or mossy seeps and seepage swamps.

stems: Stems forking and creeping, with some reddish tint.

leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, short-petiolate, round to widely oval, to ½ in. long, shallowly lobed or toothed.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers mostly solitary at ends of branches or in upper leaf axils, inconspicuous, greenish-yellow with a ring of 4 or 8 red anthers.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, 2-lobed capsule.

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