Sibbaldia procumbens : Sibbaldia

Scientific Name:

Kingdom: Plantae

Division:

• Tracheophyta (vascular)
• Spermatophyta (seed bearing)
Angiospermae (enclosed seed)

Class: Dicoteldonae (two seed-leaves)

Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family)

Genera: Sibbaldia (Sibbaldia) (Named for Robert Sibbald 1641-1722, first professor of medicine at Edinburgh University)

Species: procumbens (Lat. pro- = forward + cumbere = to lie down, prostrate; referring to its low growth form )

English Name(s):

Sibbaldia,

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Structure:

• Densely matted plant, with a freely blanching cuadex (base).
• Stems 4cm to 10cm high, strigose-pubescent (long soft hairy).

Leaves:

• Long petioled (stalked), 2-12cm long, ternate (3 parted).
• Leaflets obovate to oblanceolate in shape.
• 3 toothed at apex.
• strigose-pubescent (long soft hairy).
• Stipules (leaf apendages) persistent (not falling off).

Reproductive Parts:

• Inflorescence (flower clusters), dense, few-flowered, leafy-bracted, cymes.
• Flowers perfect (bisexual), small inconspicuous.
• Sepals 5, 2.5-5mm long, alternating with small sepal-like bracts.
• Petals 5, pale yellow to yellowish-green, linear-oblong in shape, tiny, 1.5-3mm long, shorter than sepals.
• Stamens (male parts) 5.
• Pistils (female parts) 5-20, separate, 1-loculed.

Seed:

• Fruit are small seedlike, achens, about 1mm long, on a dry receptacle.

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Physiology:

Life Cycle:

• Perennial.
• The plants need several years in order to develope flowers.

Seasonal Cycle:

• Blooms in July.

Animal Uses:

Habitat:

• Moist gravelly area in tundra, heathland and woods.
• Often by late snow patches.

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