yellow saxifrage?

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  1. Mbc

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    Hello,

    is genus saxifraga correct? Can something be said about the species?
    (plant found in July in Banff National Park)

    Michael
     

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    Plants of the Rocky Mountains (Lone Pine Publishing) shows that one under stoloniferous saxifrage (S. flagellaris), says

    "Evergreen saxifrage (S. aizoides), also called yellow saxifrage, is another small, yellow-flowered saxifrage, but its plants lack stolons and its linear leaves are succulent, hairless, and borne mainly on the stems (rather than in basal rosettes)."

    Stoloniferous saxifrage has leaves "mainly in basal rosettes, lance-shaped, spine-tipped, 5-15 mm long, fringed with stiff hairs, stem leaves few, gradually smaller upwards."
     
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    Thank you to you both,

    Saxifraga aizoides is not uncommon in the Alps, and I even have some photos from Austria. But I was not sure, whether there are similar species in Canada.

    Michael
     
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    The Lone Pine book does not say they are the same species, quite the opposite. They are shown together because of general similarity.
     

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