Identifier: rockymou00clem (find matches)
Title: Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945 Clements, Edith S. (Edith Schwartz)
Subjects: Wild flowers
Publisher: New York : H. W. Wilson
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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ferior, 2-celled, 2-lobed above, capsule 2-beaked, many-seeded; flow-ers solitary or in corymbs or panicles,; leaves alternate or opposite, entire topinnatifid : perennial. 1. Flowers white or whitish to purple a. Flowers purple (1) Leaves opposite, sessile, fleshy, ovate, en- tire ; stems prostrate; flowers solitary 5. oppositifolia (2) Leaves alternate, stalked, mostly basal, re- niform, lobed ; stems erect; flowers large. in an oblong clustei 5. J&mesii b. Flowers white to whitish, pinkish or yellowish(1) Stems leafy 196 PLATE 31 SAXIFRAGES—MENTZELIASSAXIFRAGE FAMILY 1. Saxifraga nivalis: Saxifrage 2. Saxifraga debilis 3. Saxifraga caespitosa 4. Lithophragma parviflora 5. Mitella pentandra: Mitrewort 6. Heuchera Hallii 7. Heuchera parvifolia 8. Parnassia parviflora 9. Jamesia americana 10. Philadelphus microphvllus : Mock Orange 11. Fendlera rupicola 12. Ribes cerenm: Currant 13. Ribes aureum MENTZELIA FAMILY 14. Mentzelia nuda EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 15. Anogra coronopifolia
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198 ROSE ORDER (a) Leaves usually wider than long, 3-7- lobed x. Flower usually solitary, terminal, nod-ding; upper leaves with bulbils 5. cernua y. Flowers 2-5, erect; bulbils absent 5. debilis (b) Leaves usually longer than wide, lobed to entire x. Leaves entire, linear to oblong, ciliate,spiny-tipped, petals with orange orpurple dots 6\ bronchidlis y. Leaves usually 3-5-toothed or cleft,mostly spatulate, not spiny-tipped;petals white, pinkish or yellowish, 2-7 mm. long S. caespitosa (2) Stems leafless (a) Stems 1-3 ft. high; leaves round, heart- shaped at base; flowers in a large open panicle *S\ punctata (b) Stems 1-15 in. high; leaves lanceolate to broadly ovate, tapering or roundedat base, entire to coarsely toothed;flowers 4-10 mm. wide, mostly in ahead or a raceme of head-like clusters S. nivalis2. Flowers yellow a. Flowers 8-15 mm. wide; basal leaves forming a dense rosette (1) Stems 1-8 in. high, with runners at base; leaves ciliate, 10-15 cm. long S.flagellaris (2) Stems 1-

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