Saxifraga sarmentosa
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Read about Saxifraga sarmentosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Saxifraga sarmentosa, Linn. (S. japonica, Hort. S. chinensis, Lour.). Strawberry Geranium. In England known as Mother Of Thousands, a name also applied to Linaria Cymbalaria. Old Man's Beard. Fig. 3559. Perennial, 9-24 in. high, stoloniferous, the stolons long and filiform: caudex short: lvs. basal, rather thick, strigose-pilose, reniform-rotundate, rarely rounded-ovate, nerved, doubly crenate-dentate with broad acute teeth, upper surface green veined white, lower surface reddish; petioles twice as long as the blade, semi-terete: infl. loosely paniculate, borne on an erect, strigose-pilose scape, the panicle-branches glandulose, spreading, 4-7-fld.: fls. white, numerous; calyx short-glandular, the lobes ovate, obtusish or acute, spreading; petals 1-nerved, clawed, unequal, the 3 smaller ovate, acute, of these the two outer have a yellow spot, the middle one 2 scarlet spots, the other two 3-4 times larger and lanceolate-elliptic. May-Aug. Japan, China. B.M. 92. G.C. III. 7:237 (showing irritability of plant to light). Gn. 30, p. 363; 32, p. 37. R.H. 1876, p. 427. G. 25:365. Gn. W. 25:781.—An old-time greenhouse plant, and also one of the commonest window-garden subjects. Of easiest cult. Not quite hardy in England but frequently used in sheltered rock crevices and slightly protected. Var. tricolor, Sieb. (S. tricolor, Hort. S. tricolor superba, Hort.), has lvs. handsomely marked with creamy white and red variegations. G.Z. 9:32. Less hardy than the type. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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