''Micranthes hieraciifolia'' (
common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...
s: ''hawkweed-leaved saxifrage'', ''hawkweed-leaf saxifrage'', ''stiff stem saxifrage'' or ''stiff-stemmed saxifrage'') is a species of
flowering plants. It is native to Europe, North America and temperate Asia,
being distributed throughout the high
Arctic and some
alpine
Alpine may refer to any mountainous region. It may also refer to:
Places Europe
* Alps, a European mountain range
** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range
Australia
* Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village
* Alpine National Pa ...
areas like
Norway and the
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
, with a few isolated populations in the
Central Eastern Alps of
Austria and the
Massif Central of
France. It is generally uncommon.
It grows to a height of 10–20 cm. The
leaves
A leaf (plural, : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant plant stem, stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", wh ...
are oblong to rhombic, thick, and remotely toothed. The stem is single, stout and thick, and densely glandular. The
flowers are produced in dense clusters, small and inconspicuous, with greenish to purplish petals.
It grows in
meadows, on
solifluction soil, and in places with well-developed
moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...
.
References
hieraciifolia
Alpine flora
Flora of Europe
Flora of Northern America
Flora of temperate Asia
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