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Saxifraga tricuspidata
Prickly Saxifrage
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Photographer: Sharon Chester
ID: 0000 0000 0213 1158 (2013-02-11)Copyright © 2013 Sharon Chester
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date of photo Jul 1996
location
Bathurst Inlet, Canada (Northwest Territories, Fon Island, Canada)family
Saxifragaceae
plant community Arctic coastal tundranotes Range: N Amer–Greenland. Grows in arctic-alpine zones on dry, rocky and gravelly sites. ID: Height 2–6 in (6–15 cm). Leaves: Crowded in flat cushions, rigid, leathery, cuneate to spatulate, with 3 prickly, tooth-like lobes at leaf apex; green in summer, often red in winter or when growing on eroded granite. Flowers: Creamy white petals dotted with orange, borne in a corymb, nodding in youth.keywords: saxifrage
photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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