Saxifraga tridactylites
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Growing form
Annual herb.
Size
4–15 cm high.
Stem
The stem is erect, branched at the base, many-leaved and typically covered with glandular hairs.
Leaf
The basal leaves form a rosette, and the cauline leaves are in a spiral arrangement. The basal leaves are petiolate, obovoid and early-withering. The cauline leaves are sessile, elliptic – lanceolate, palmately lobed with 3–5 lobes, or entire.
Flower
The flowers are solitary and axillary. The calyx and corolla are five-leaved and actinomorphic. The sepals are erect. The petals (3–4 mm) are white. The flowers are bisexual. In a flower, there are ten stamens and a two-leaved pistil where the carpels are connate only at the base.
Fruit and seed
The fruit is a globose, bi-locular capsule.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
- Total squares
- mäkirikko (Finnish)
- grusbräcka (Swedish)
- AOV - spontaneous, old, resident
Vascular plants – SUMI Project 2022 ? Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Lajiturva Project 2019–2021 ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 1a Hemiboreal, Åland ? Regionally Threatened 2020 - 2a Southern boreal, Southwestern Finland and Southern Ostrobothnia ?
- 2019 NT – Near Threatened
- 2010 NT – Near Threatened
- 2000 LC – Least Concern
- Mikko Piirainen
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