Saxifraga idahoensis (syn: Saxifraga occidentalis var. idahoensis)
Idaho Saxifrage

Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifrage family)

Photo taken in Icicle River Canyon, dry openly wooded rocky slope

Flowers:

flowers generally greater than 10 per plant; petals white, sometimes with 2 yellow spots near base; ovary less than 1/2 inferior at anthesis; filaments petaloid, very strongly clavate, 3-4 times as braod above the middle as at the base; stamens inserted at the edge of a narrow bandlike gland or nectary surrounding but not covering the top of the ovary

Leaves:

stem leaves lacking or reduced to bracts; basal leaves ovate to elliptic, longer than broad, shallowly toothed

Plant:

perennial, 10 to 25 cm tall

Habitat:

lowlands and mountain foothills

Distribution of species:

foothills of the Wenatchee Mountains mainly in and near Tumwater Canyon, Chelan and Kittitas County, and in the lower tributaries of the Clearwater River and adjacent Snake River Canyon, in Idaho and in Oregon

Distribution of genus:

more or less 400 species: worldwide, especially in cool northern temperate areas