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Chrysosplenium tetrandrum

  • Family name: Saxifragaceae
  • Common name: northern golden saxifrage
  • Growth form: Forb
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Chrysosplenium tetrandrum

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  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Close-up of an inflorescence. Cluster of six flowers, four with fruit developing from a mainly inferior ovary, and two flowers at anthesis
    Canada, Nunavut, Victoria Island, at Cambridge Bay
    Image author: Lynn Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Lower centre, clump of plants growing beside sedge meadow
    Canada, Nunavut, Victoria Island, at Cambridge Bay
    Image author: Lynn Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Opened fruits with seeds. The plants are known for 'splash-cup' dispersal, i.e., rain drops falling into the bowls and throwing the seeds out.
    June 1987, Noisdalen, Sassen, Svalbard, Norway
    Image author: R. Elven ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Plants with clusters of 'golden flowers' subtended by lobed leaves
    Canada, Nunavut, Victoria Island, at Cambridge Bay
    Image author: Lynn Gillespie ?
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Plants with the yellow fruiting capsules open to reveal red seeds
    1998, Nikko Island, Baffin Island, Nunavut
    Image author: unknown
    Website: Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
    Source of original image

  1. Chrysosplenium tetrandrum    , northern golden saxifrage
  2. Ny London, Blomstrandhalvøya, Svalbard
    Image author: Bjørn Erik Sandbakk
    Website: The Flora of Svalbard
    Source of original image