Skye Flora

Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage


Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

 

Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Photo © Carl Farmer
27 Apr 2002 Portree

Common in damp shady areas

Lower leaves 1-2 cm diameter.  Flowers 3-4 mm

Skye ID: Leaves opposite, round, bluntly toothed, stalked.  Flowers greenish-yellow with 4 (occasionally 5) sepals, no petals, 8 stamens.  Flowers lie on a rosette of stalkless greenish-yellow leaflike bracts.

Other features: Spreads by rooting stems to form large mats.

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Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Photo © Carl Farmer
27 Apr 2002 Portree

 

Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Mar 2003 Scorrybreac
Inflorescence 13 mm across the pic incl bracts

  Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Mar 2003 Scorrybreac
Inflorescence 16 mm down the pic incl bracts

     

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